Here we are.
Me and the madman inside my mind, having a lovely little walk on a wonderful little Wednesday evening.
It's been one of those all-day-rain kinda days, and now the clouds remain, clogging the sky and clinging to the ground in such a way that a pessimist might confuse it all as evidence of impending doom and gloom.
However, if you focus on the positive—as you always should—and if you know exactly where to look, you will see that off in the distance the clouds have not obscured Hope Pass, nor Mount Hope herself.
A good omen for the evening, I am sure!
For in a metaphorical way, at least, hope would appear to be clearly in view!
BEHOLD!!
'Tis I, the madman inside your mind!
I couldn't help but notice that you were sounding a little bit upbeat for a minute right there!
Just wanted to chime in and remind you, before you get yourself too far carried away with all that bright-side-of-life bullshit, that Mount Hope and Hope Pass were given their modern-day names by the same murderous Europeans who invaded these lands, slew all the natives, and took what was not theirs!
The name shared by yonder mountain and pass is completely unrelated to what the weather portends, and it is quite frankly a direct affront to the peaceful Utes who lived here first!
Further, I would venture to suggest that the weather appears to be souring, and that we should perhaps consider the risk of getting thunderstruck sooner than later if we continue with this miserable walk of ours, exposed to the roiling electric heavens as we right now are!
And lo, I am with you always!
Don't be ridiculous, how is it even possible to get thunderstruck?
Striking is the business of lightning, not thunder, my madman.
And besides, you and I both know those are just rainclouds—not stormclouds.
Remind me why I keep inviting you out on these walks?
You ruin every single one of them.
Look, the skies are very clearly clearing up.
Go on then with your insufferable nagging and naysaying you idiot, you can't drag me down.
AHOY!!
Do I now detect a wayward telephone pole, bearing a heavy burden of deadly uninsulated wires and likely bent on dropping one or all of them down upon us as we pass like sheep to the slaughter beneath!
I warn you again, there is electric waiting for us above!
And we shall surely die if we continue pathing our way along like this upon our current path!
We shall not pass!
We shall not pass!
And lo, I will never leave you nor forsake you, even unto the inevitable death into which you do now certainly lead us, with caution heedlessly flung to the same inspirationless wind that will forever whip our desiccated bodies in this far-flung and far-from-holy place!
Madman.
We are literally only a few minutes from town.
I am now officially ignoring you for the rest of the evening.
YE GODS!!
We have wandered ourselves deep into the worst possible kind of wrong kinds of woods!
Woods, of the most unfriendly and forbidden kind!
We are doomed to become disappeared here very shortly now, and for all eternity!
Our food and water are nearly fully depleted now, and we are surely to be cursed with that slow and horrible race to the grave, that is a death by hunger and dehydration!
Oh, but that one of these precariously leaning trees would fall upon us with great force, and crush us with great speed and accuracy, and thus put us out of this, our completely undeserved yet equally assured misery, that much quicker!
And lo, I am here to bring you tidings of neither peace nor great joy, but rather affliction and fear aplenty!
Fuck you and your godforsaken tidings you madman.
Look, a rainbow!
Rainbows are always good signs.
Everything will be fine.
AWAKEN!!
Hear me now, oh thou fool bereft of sense, lest it be too late!
We shall NOT renew our strength!
We shall NOT mount up with wings as eagles!
We SHALL grow weary, and we SHALL grow faint!
And lo, I am somehow with you always, STILL, as much as I'd honestly rather not be!
Madman.
Seriously.
If you don't shut up with your goddamn crazy rants and ravings, I swear to all the gods I'll drop your ass, and leave you out here alone to either make it back home by yourself, or die.
ALONE!!
Lost, and all alone, with no hope for salvation apparent in any direction!
We are as totally lost and alone as is humanly possible, so insanely far away from any person, save loneliness and lostness personified!
Nowhere to go from here, save straight into the great beyond!
And no one to save us from this place, save the one and only Death himself!
And yet lo, I am STILL here with you always, for although I long with all my heart to leave and forsake you, I cannot now, and I never shall be able to, for we are one and the same!
WOE IS ME!!
WOE IS ME!!
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Hey madman.
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Nice landscape to walk at.
You did some great clicks and thanks for sharing them with us.
Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!
DOOMED!! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!
Walking into the rainbow is how you get thunderstruck. I'm surprised you don't know this.
Oh, I always thought that was just Canadian rainbows. It works in the US too? I'll have to try it next time!
BEHOLD!! FIRE, FALLING FROM THE SKY, TO CONSUME US ALL RIGHT HERE WHERE WE STAND, AND SEND US DIRECTLY INTO THE AFTERLIFE ETERNALLY!!
No it was never Canadian rainbows. That's disinformation. Here we have to walk under the moose to become thunderstruck but only if you paint it to look like a rainbow first then say:
Pass the maple syrup, bitch!
Well that's too bad, because I draw the line at walking under moose that are painted to look like rainbows.
BEHOLD, THE LIGHTNING STRIKETH YOUR MAPLE SYRUP!!
Not are the photos great and dramatic so is your brilliant writing in this post I was enthralled reading through till the end
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk
Hey, glad you liked it!
I saw some other people posting to #wednesdaywalk, and since today was Wednesday, I figured I might as well join :)
WE'RE GONNA DIE OUT HERE IN THE WOODS!!
Glad I am not the only one with a madman in me lol
Great to have you join Wednesday Walk
There's probably a madman in all of us, just gotta be careful about where you let him out ;)
Yeah thats the key, luckily now into my 60's the madman in me has slowed down a lot so I dont have to be so careful LOL