The Mountains Within Us

 

We think of landscapes as external to us. They also live within us, make inroads that we revisit in solitude. They comfort us and give us a sense of place, a sense of home, even when that home is not where we’re from.

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The Pacific North West isn't where I'm from. Moving to Seattle after devastating fires in Australia, the cool, dampness was a salve.

It's part of the reason the landscape embedded itself within me. It's why there's mountains in my heart and rivers tumbling in my ears as I lay in bed late at night. It's the otherness of the Pacific North West that has wedged itself inside me.

 

When you have a landscape inside yourself, you have to return to that landscape again and again, to fit the two halves together, the one within and the one without.

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