I grew up in the USA, the state of Michigan
\nwith my mother and father, sister and brother
\nme, I was the second born that middle child
\nwe all lived together in an area called Freeland
\na place not populated enough to be a village
\nbeing an unincorporated community, listed as
\nsome census-designated place located within
\nthe central portion of Tittabawassee Township<\/p>\n
Our home then was located on Carter Road
\nabout two miles away from Tri-City Airport
\nnow MBS, we were surrounded by farmland
\nfarmed mainly by those of German ancestry
\nnot unlike my mother\u2019s side of the family
\nGerman\/Polish from the Kingdom of Prussia
\nland was divvied into four mile squares of road
\nbumpy log roads layered with tar and gravel<\/p>\n
Life was filled with various sounds and smells
\nnoisy equipment, smelly fertilizers and yes
\nwhen the winds were right that unmistakable
\nundeniable aroma of cow pies and pig crap
\nyet the railroad tracks nearby with loud trains
\nclanking down the tracks led to the worse smell
\nemanating from the Dow Chemical Company
\nbased next to the polluted Tittabawassee River<\/p>\n
However, it was there walking along those rails
\nand along the fence rows of planted or freshly
\ntilled fields, My Empathic Mysticism emerged
\nwhen laying in the heat of tall grasses or trudging
\nthrough patches of woods left uncut by farmers
\nmy felt sense of spirituality within me leapt forth
\nwhile listening to a bird like the meadowlark or
\njust bending over to smell the cool damp ground<\/p>\n
At these moments I felt the oneness with all Nature
\nfeeling some interconnectivity or interdependence
\nsort of this systemic interrelationship with all else
\nme relating to all else embodied this whole system
\nas if one as a totality interacting as Nature\u2019s process
\ncausing me to experience a wholeness as a mystic
\nbestowing me with fresh intelligently progressive
\nand perceptive insights, all in a place called Freeland<\/p>\n
peace out<\/p>\n
Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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