Adventures in Time

Woooot!  So I know I titled this something very exciting, although what I'm going to say does not really have to do with time travel...though maybe a little. 

Here goes:
So today on my way home from substitute  teaching I was driving on Minnehaha Parkway and thinking just how gorgeous it was outside and watching the bikers and people walking by on the path.  Then I was thinking, well, I could stop my car and get out and walk on the path, and then I was like: I feel lazy, and then I though: how stupid for me to keep driving simply because it takes a little extra effort to park my car and then I will lose some time at home (but I will gain infinitely more as I explore outside!).  So, I turned on a street and parked my car!  Yep, that's pretty much how the conversation in my head went.

Ah, how amazing it was outside today.  It was (and still is) one of those perfect autumn days where leaves begin to change color and you can crunch the fallen ones under your shoes and the air just has this tremendously pleasant aroma that only seems to smell that way this time of year. As I was walking I went over a small bridge and kept going up a hill until I found that I was overlooking a preserved prairie.  I just looked at it wondering if that's what it would all look like if us modern people didn't care about lawns.  Then I trotted down the hill again and I found a little path that cut right through the prairie/plain and I followed it.  It lead me to a massive log that spread across the creek.  It was actually a tree that had somehow toppled over and it was just right for climbing on.  I then decided that I was going to do just that.  As I did I felt that I may as well have been 13 as much 27.  I felt like a child discovering the natural world so splendid and rough.  I remembered the woman with the stroller and baby wrapped around her who had been walking a few yards behind me as I walked up the hill back by the prairie and thought how strange it is that I could be like her in a few, even a couple of years, with a child or children of my own, and yet...here I am.  I am more of a daughter than a mother.  I am more youthful than aged, and yet I never 'believed' in age the way some people do.  I want to live enjoying every moment as it comes.  I know there are different seasons and different times of maturity and I want to cherish them all, whatever they bring.  And truly, life is beautiful that way.