{3} Remembering Nebraska

Aug 6

*1) A field, in which your only company are scattered bales of hay, is a great place to enjoy a book without bother.

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*2) For many years my mornings began like this, getting picked up by the bus to go to school. Living in the country though, I was always one of the first kids picked up and one of the last to be dropped off. These hour long rides on the bus every day, gazing out the window, helped foster a contemplative nature in me at a young age.

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*3) One distinguishing feature of Nebraska, and much of the midwest, is the sheer vastness of its landscape. Nebraska is relatively flat, but from a good vantage point one can easily look out at miles and miles of plotted fields; acres upon acres of rural land tended to by farmers.

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*4) And not only is the landscape vast in the rural midwest, but the sky just as well.

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*5) This scene looks very similar to the view of my home in Nebraska, from the field behind our house, with the exception of our acreage not having a silo.

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*6) When I was younger my mom, our dog, and I would often take walks down our gravel road to the intersection half-a-mile down, and then back up to our house on the hill.

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*7) The past week has been a reflection on life in Nebraska, which I love dearly but am ready to leave behind for a liberated life in Washington state. The mountainous terrain of the Pacific Northwest will be the theme of the next series as I begin my move westward.