The Valleys Ch.1

"An era has ended, crest and fell."

"What will replace it?”

“I can not see."

I think of this often. This conversation, some where at some time, took place, began or ended with these thoughts. At night, resting on the stump, the glassy waters running their pursuit green in the moonlit. I contemplate the words. Feet dangle in silence and swing out into the night, the unknown.   The cold waters swift curve sweep and plunge edge to a misty abyss. I hear a conversation between two curious and awe capable gods, ruminating over my adopted home and wonder where and how I fit.

Wild things grow when the moment will and everything rolls grand in tropical contempt or in spite of the storied bleak and cold, all the nasty, brutish, and short that's legend, that’s said to surround this our place.

Still I'm the only outsider in memory to enter the Valleys. Eight years give or take, keep a loose track of the phases and transitions in a journal, still holdin tight to it, reference or some lingering tug can’t drop, can’t let go.

Halcyon Divide my forced chosen home is a place of absolute wonder, here the imagination lends itself to possibility and limits surpassed. This place evokes light and and forges life conceived and sustained. Of the Divide vast stretches out remote and unexplored, waiting and calling tomorrows. Something of magic here grows daily works on every soul. Though bounded by earth it seems to grow and open up perpetual motion some hybrid sunflower onion defiant of maps and borders and a familiar.

Legend's a whaling port in the arctic rim, Halcyon, an ancient sea hub born a wayward Norseman. They say overnight mountains struck from the earth without notice rose to unimaginable and inescapable heights. Forever cut off the valleys, forever cut off the winters, forever cut off the world for time that time forgot Halcyon and no more never-thoughts never thought of Halcyon, now Halcyon Divide, again. And so bore an eternal spring and those that are here are here and those who come here new just become from and out of nothing as though they have always been here, always existed here. I am the first and only to ever come to Halcyon Divide from and through the sky scraping mountains.

What follows is my, our story........