"So Many Farther Findings..."

 

At first it seemed, as if it is we who have found the mountains.
Then we more surely sense that it has been our elusive summits which have actually found us...
In the beginning we thought, we've now also discovered canyons and caving.
Then it eventually became more clear, that those deep wild places have indeed uncovered much within us as well...
When starting out, heading among those long uncharted valleys, rivers, and forests, we hoped for such unknowns.
Then surely as the dawn, what was also revealed were endless enlightenment's about our very selves...
Back then we pondered, what will we discover when paddling far out upon the open ocean.
Now, we very much know that it is those amazing expansive waters that really find each of us too...
Stepping for the first time upon a distant coastal island after a storm, our expectations were for quiet, and the calming of the elements.
Then we were gifted with rainbows, such awe and contentment, also made up of our own elemental emotions and perspectives...
Initially we mused, so much about the many trails we've navigated and outwardly followed.
Only later to truly feel, that these have become paths we also genuinely inwardly wander as well...
Long ago, when out first adventuring, we believed we would find so much out there.
We certainly have...
Then our journeys found us, and more within was wonderfully discovered than we ever first realized.
So grateful for this we all are..... DSD