Country Roads Take me Home

Anyone remember John Denver? Sappy, Sentimental and Soulful with a little folk and country vibe mixed together.

I heard one of my old faves today. 

Country Roads

Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue ridge mountain, Shenandoah river,
Life is old there, older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma,
take me home - Country roads

All my memories, gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma, take me home
country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me
Radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West virginia,
Mountain mamma, take me home
Country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me
Radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma, take me home
country roads
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, country roads


Now, I'm not really sure what all the lyrics mean, Miner's lady - stranger to blue water? Huh?  Dark and Dusty painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine - teardrop in my eye?  Double Huh??  But I don't think it is so much about the words making sense together as a story, as it about phrases that conjure up those feelings of yearning.  Have you ever yearned before?  What a strange word and deep concept.  But I can tell you, I know what yearning is, both for those country roads (mine are in Arkansas) and the people I will soon see when I travel those country roads. 

I yearn for my people.  My family that I haven't seen since September.  When I see them it will have been two months since I held any of my children in my arms.  This is the longest I have gone without putting my hands on at least some of my four children.  It is a new sensation to learn life again without them.  I raised children for soo very long that I often find myself wondering who I am without them.  But I am figuring it out and completely embrace the adventure of the latest version of me, the mother of beautiful grown children and yet, in my heart, I miss those relationships.  My parents and in-laws too, we have always lived close and visited often and I miss them and yearn to be with them and feel the warmth of family and security of home.

I yearn for the woods, the wide open spaces, and the mountains that hold all the sights, sounds and smells that I consider an integral part of the "good life".  I dream about the place that my husband and I will purchase when he is done with school. I am gonna need a country road, an old barn and if you know me well you already know what comes next, some chickens.

Now this post doesn't have a lot to do with weight loss or health, except to say, I hope I learn to yearn ( that was kinda catchy) for healthy pursuits the way I yearn for my people and my places.  I think it is getting closer.  I really want to be so in tune with my health and pursuits of healthy eating and exercise that I miss it when I don't have it.  Something tells me this is connected to a loving and nurturing relationship with myself as well as a continued awareness of the results of my efforts.  Isn't that what creates yearning, a deep desire to have something that we feel is worthwhile and oh so satisfying?  In other words -  a big pay off? 

But I don't want the empty yearning of desiring the things I cannot have, I want instead the realistic yearning for those things that may seem just out of grasp but are truthfully, wholly obtainable with the right amount of effort applied. 

I will be heading out for those country roads next week, I want to keep all my passions before me as I go.  The passion for my loved ones, the passion for my lovely state and the passion for the real me! 

Country Roads Take Me Home!

That's All ~ Thanks Y'all!!