Late April Rambles...

Late April Rambles…

By John W. Vander Velden  

Throughout the years I have used this platform to share my thoughts and feelings.  I have written small pieces that I have shared with you, pieces describing day’s beginnings…and endings, sensations of a walk on a frigid night.  I have spoken of star filled skies, of tired old barns, of the fresh new leaves of spring.  I have shared my thoughts about the courage of the everyman in “Heroes”, of the importance of the unique individual in “Square Pegs”, and about how our view of the world changes by where we stand in “Perspective”. 

There were times I reached deep within to release thoughts in the hope that some meaning might be found for me…the writer…and you…the reader.  Those have been lofty goals…unreached perhaps…but sometimes the reaching is enough.  For it is only through the reaching we can stretch…and through the stretching we can become something larger.

I do not pretend that these few words, I post each week, will change the world.  I do not imagine that these few words will change any of my readers.  But I have found that these few words have changed…me.

That was never the purpose I had hoped to accomplish.  Times I have shared my dream for this enterprise.  Those particular expectations will never come to fruition.  Once that failing did concern me…I saw it as the value of this Blog…I was foolish…naïve… Now I understand that the journey is as much a part of the traveling as the destination…and these post have very much been that journey…and it continues.

So to those that travel with me…thank you for your time…and your trust. 

The road trip has changed.  The pace may be slower. But for now I must stretch…and it is my hope that I will grow…