A Spiritual Place?
For many, living in the North has spiritual significance. For some, it is just a sense of something "bigger" that they experience by living or being Up North.
Is it the expanse of Lake Michigan or the wonder of summer stars or the solitude of the forest?
What nurtures your Northern spirit?
Is it the expanse of Lake Michigan or the wonder of summer stars or the solitude of the forest?
What nurtures your Northern spirit?
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Permalink Reply by Donna on -
Looking up at the twinkling stars in the dark night sky... driving up Mitchell Street (Petoskey) to Bill's Fresh Farm Market, getting out of the car and looking out over the beautiful terrain... standing in knee-deep summer water in Little Traverse Bay, gazing across the bay and breathing deep... arriving in Petoskey on US131 at the water tower - seeing the bay after a much-too-long absence....
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Permalink Reply by Darren King on -
"For some, it is just a sense of something "bigger" that they experience by living or being Up North..."
It's not one picture, but the whole scene - it only takes minutes for me to realize being Up North is what I needed; it is, as you say, something bigger within the details, the sum of these parts making the whole: driving M22, Port Oneida's openess and the barns' inferences to history, orchards, walking barefoot the shores of Lake Michigan, the changing sand, the seclusion on Crystal River by kayak, the Glen Lakes in the morning, the air is fresh, even dune grass is spiritual...
