"Let Us Go Back"

Let Us Go Back

~Thomas Curtis Clark~

Let us go back

To the simpler and better things.

Let us retrace our steps

From our greed-born bickerings

Back to the quietness

Of plain, good friendliness.

Let us go back

To the old roads of beauty's quest.

Let us again find joy

In the fields and the woods, possessed

By the thrill of the spring,

And of summer wandering.

Let us go back

To old-fashioned content, our wealth

Found in the garden nooks,

And beneath home roofs.

Let the health

Of the trees and the grass

Be ours, as the seasons pass.

I feel this way today. Weary of all the new ideas, new concepts, new approaches to how we should live our lives. We are bombarded daily by television shows, computer items, blogs, radio and of course stores and magazines on what we should be doing and what we must have or do in order to have a "quality" life.

I am weary of all the "must do's and must have's".

We have been digging potatoes. We have dirty fingernails, hair all a mess, sweat on our brows. But we also have sat together under the cottonwood, refreshed in the breeze, chatting, planning, happy with an old fashioned contentment on just living life simply. It feels so good.