{"id":14267,"date":"2021-05-08T05:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=14267"},"modified":"2021-12-02T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:55:12","slug":"the-tiny-blue-heron-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=14267","title":{"rendered":"the tiny Blue Heron house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After leaving<\/strong> the Long Canyon trailhead<\/a>, I head on over to the town of Clarkdale to find my accomodations for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As am I driving, I reflect back to the year 2003 when I moved for the first time to Arizona. I just started a new job six months earlier, and the weekly travel to Arizona from Utah was becoming too much, and so I relocated to Cottonwood as a centralized location for the work I needed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the time, the town was trash, full of tweekers and people just barely making ends meet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always related to Clarice Starling in the movie Silence of the Lambs when she is talking about her childhood to Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I too am only one generation away from poor white trash, hard working folks that never saw the world past their own small town view. I was always haunted by the screaming of the lambs in the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pull up to the Blue Heron House. The town has come along way since 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I find that I was close<\/strong> to the Birthing Cave as I was hiking along the trail earlier in the day, and feel extremely confident that I’ll be able to get there in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I continue to think about my past<\/strong> as I rest in the tiny house, letting the stars spin and twinkle above me. I find myself feeling divergent, a part of me still feels like a child stuck in poor rural Utah, another part of me relishes in my new found wings that allow me to fly and explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morning comes, and with it I head back on out to the Vortex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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