Choke:

There are a few human attributes needed for Presence: many more that are added as avoidance mechanisms.

(Photo)

This shed on a modern vineyard in the Yakama River Valley, N. Carolina has history evidenced by age on the outside, and a secret history on the inside (metaphor it). The age on the outside is seen by everyone-secrets held inside not so much.

The trap door found under the old hay is the evidence of moonshine and the prohibition times-it still works……. The hidden cellar is the small place that supported the entire farm.

I seldom stop long enough to see the “small place” that runs it all, but when I do-well the journey is inward. The journey outward is exhausting, the inward one is rewarding for the diligent-scholarship and intelligence not a requirement……..

If I be found journeying, let me be found in an intense desire for freedom…all else is borrowed direction to avoid myself.