Missouri, discouragement, the feeling of despair. After hours on the road, in study, at work. I wake up feeling exhausted. The light starts to break over the mountain peak. I put the coffee on the tailgate to jet boil. That was a very long drive. The swans and geese start to sing their morning songs. The night was brutally cold. Frost still stuck to the camper windows. My bones stiff and sore. Yet the eagle flys over. The light of sunrise shoots it’s rays like arrows overhead. I need to keep studying. Keep pushing harder to learn these lessons. The morning frost is stealing my focus. Leia the setter is off to the bird races.
I reach over to ring out the stiffness in my ankles, stuck in place every morning. As the pain starts to subside the coffee starts to boil. A little for the portage, a little for the caffeine.
The river is slowly flowing, yet the sense of urgency is growing. As the frost lifts so do my spirits. The gold in the morning sky shimmering on the waves of the river. My quest for the gold and silver, shivers down me timbers. I must finish my study’s so that I can help shine that light into the missouri of peoples lives around me. Is this quest in vane: To help others on their worst day? I’m still crawling out of the worst phase of mine.
The river is slowly flowing, yet the sense of urgency is growing. As the frost lifts so do my spirits. The gold in the morning sky shimmering on the waves of the river. My quest for the gold and silver, shivers down me timbers. I must finish my study’s so that I can help shine that light into the missouri of peoples lives around me. Is this quest in vane: To help others on their worst day? I’m still crawling out of the worst phase of mine.
The Lord is my shield, and my strength. My hope in this weakness. He is the shoulder I lean on as I stumble down the bank. Rinse my face in the icy stream. Shake out the mane. Fire the motor and back to the fray!
A tale about camping at the mouth of the Missouri River April 2022’
by Jeremy Pottenger Master Falconer NREMT
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