I’m a military child, and as such, it’s always an awkward thing when someone asks me: “Where are you from?”
I don’t really know, I can’t pinpoint an exact place where I can say: “I’m from so-and-so.” I can tell you where my family spent a lot time though, where the memories are the deepest, and the places I felt a strong connection to.
Alaska is such a place. There’s nowhere in the world like Alaska, and I can say that with extreme clarity because my father has been everywhere. He’ll say there’s nowhere like Alaska. No place in the world where the air still smells new. No place where the moon feels so close to the earth, and everything seems stuck in time when you’re on a frozen tundra. I was 12 years old when we moved Alaska. I was a child who had her head stuck in books, so I knew everything there was to know already. I was excited for this adventure to the last frontier. To see mountains, killer whales and my favorite animal …show more content…
Looking back on it, maybe it was the smoke, or maybe it the magic around that man. Maybe, it was a celestial force that guided him and spoke to something inside of us, awakening a feeling, a calling that lay dormant. I believe such things at least. I dreamed that night of a black wolf with amber eyes, staring at me in the darkness, talking to me, leading me through a line of birch and evergreen trees. Now whenever I sleep deeply, or I’m sick, or sometimes just out of nowhere I dream of that same wolf and usually get whatever answer I need in life. As a result of this encounter I would say, that I am more spiritual than religious. I believe in things that cannot be explained, but things that are on a mystic level that perhaps in all this time man has forgotten as he draws closer to technology. It grounds me, it calms me in a philosophical way that some things I can change, and others I must make do
I don’t really know, I can’t pinpoint an exact place where I can say: “I’m from so-and-so.” I can tell you where my family spent a lot time though, where the memories are the deepest, and the places I felt a strong connection to.
Alaska is such a place. There’s nowhere in the world like Alaska, and I can say that with extreme clarity because my father has been everywhere. He’ll say there’s nowhere like Alaska. No place in the world where the air still smells new. No place where the moon feels so close to the earth, and everything seems stuck in time when you’re on a frozen tundra. I was 12 years old when we moved Alaska. I was a child who had her head stuck in books, so I knew everything there was to know already. I was excited for this adventure to the last frontier. To see mountains, killer whales and my favorite animal …show more content…
Looking back on it, maybe it was the smoke, or maybe it the magic around that man. Maybe, it was a celestial force that guided him and spoke to something inside of us, awakening a feeling, a calling that lay dormant. I believe such things at least. I dreamed that night of a black wolf with amber eyes, staring at me in the darkness, talking to me, leading me through a line of birch and evergreen trees. Now whenever I sleep deeply, or I’m sick, or sometimes just out of nowhere I dream of that same wolf and usually get whatever answer I need in life. As a result of this encounter I would say, that I am more spiritual than religious. I believe in things that cannot be explained, but things that are on a mystic level that perhaps in all this time man has forgotten as he draws closer to technology. It grounds me, it calms me in a philosophical way that some things I can change, and others I must make do