Time Passages

Taking what author William Least Heat Moon called "Blue Highways," the back roads of America that are rendered as thin blue lines on road maps, makes a journey of almost any length into a journey of unexpected discovery. On a recent road trip up into north Florida, I by-passed roaring sweep of Interstate 95 and found myself meandering instead along two lane U.S. 129, along which I found the ruins of this old homestead, quietly collapsing into a field of wildflowers.

The journey took an extra hour, not so much because of the slower speed limit but because there was so much to see and think about along my chosen rural path.

“Instead of insight," Least Heat-Moon said, " maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.”

Maybe that's all we need.

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