eliya A-10- the mountains say, the mountains say

 

The mountains say, the mountains say.

Most of my entire childhood was spent moving from place to place, I've lived everywhere from Oregon to the hippie commune by fort Bragg. I have to say that I'm more like the mountains, because out of all the houses I have stayed at, the mountains were the only things that stayed consistent.

The mountains and forest have always been something that I have always connected with. Some of my earliest memories are dancing with my parents in the middle of the forest floor or backroads to gypsy music. I think the best place to explain how I was more like the mountains was when I had lived in a hippie commune by fort Bragg. From what I remember, living in this place was like living on another planet, it had trees for miles and miles. With trees and in the middle of nowhere meant that it didn't have any access to the internet which made this place more special to me. Our house was a small yurt with a big floor to ceiling window that would look out at the miles of trees and fog, waking up to it was amazing. Every morning we would hike through the mountains to get to a beach that was close by, however I don't really ever remember arriving at the beach, but rather the trip through the fog and the sunlight that would illuminate the fog too.

Even now, any chance I get, I find myself trying to hike in the forests and mountains. Mountains have always been calming to me, maybe because of the fact that no one can really tell you what you can and cannot do, or it's because it's not as overcrowded as beaches are, and music isn't being blasted out of people's speakers. The mountains have always been the place for me to go to for silence and peace.   

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