I am linking up for Five Minute Friday. The FMF is hosted by Kate Motaung on her blog Heading Home. Today’s prompt is “Place.” This community is such a gift to me. Today I even got to meet a blog friend in the flesh. What a blessing! We’d love to have you join us on Thursday nights for our Twitter party.
I’m from the prairies of North Dakota, where the wind blows dirt and it is caked in every fiber of my being. In the words of one of my favorite children’s books, “You’re not from the prairie if you don’t know the feeling of the wind across your face.”
I’m from the prairies where my soul finds peace. A contentment like no other. I’m also from the shores of Lake Sakakawea where the lock to my families story was finally unlocked. A freedom spilled forth as I told my fellow camp counselors. “I am the daughter of a woman who lives daily with a mental illness.”
I’m from Ashley Public School, the University of Mary, and Wartburg Theological Seminary. Places of education that have shaped me into who I am as a woman of faith. I am from blogging communities like the Slate Project and Five Minute Friday. Places that let me be fully who God created me to be.
I am from a place that allows me to hear the whispers of the Holy Spirit as she blows across the prairies of ND. I am from a place that makes me want to be a better person. I am from water that calls and claims me as a beloved child of God.
I am from the prairies of North Dakota; where wild flowers grow rampant and crowning golden fields yield the beauty of this land. Prairie sunsets and sunrises as far as the eye can see. A simple reminder of all God has created and reminds us all of our place in this broken beautiful world!
I can see, in my mind’s eye, the places you are from. You’re very right; you can’t understand the prairie unless you’ve felt the breeze and the dirt and the tall, dry grass.
Right?! And thanks
I love this! You are a pioneer at heart :).
Thanks Anita!
How beautiful! Your words are so poetic and vivid. Places can be both physical and personal/spiritual too, as you say. And they all shape who we become.
Thank You!
You are definitely from the prairie! I lived in SD for a school year so I know about the prairies and the strong winds and even experienced a blizzard that lasted a couple of days.
Loved your post. You have such a way with words. Beautiful!
Blessings to you!
Thank you for your sweet words. Blessings to you too!
I love the imagery in your sense of place, Tara. I also love how you felt freedom in owning who you were when you stood up at camp. Bold.
Bold….I like that description!
So good, Tara. I love this way of looking at our stories, our place in the universe!
Thank You!
This is a really touching post, Tara! I love how you structured it and tell us more about “your places”. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Katha!
Your place is beautiful – love the poetry of your words.
Thanks Annie!
beautiful! I love the feel of the breeze on my face. (Especially now that I live in Savannah!
Nice!
So poetic! Lovely writing here.
Thanks Stephanie!
I love your descriptions of the prairies. So true that the places we’ve been influence and shape us.
Indeed!
It sounds like you are in the right place.
Indeed!
What a very good post on PLACE.
Thanks online mom! 🙂