Berkshires

Today Geoff and I will drive to the Berkshires for a friend's wedding. I love the Berkshires. I don't think I've been anywhere in the Berkshires that hasn't inspired me. This is a very short trip, but I still hope to return with some inspiration. Trips up there mostly inspire me to plant a tree or grow my own vegetables. Sometimes I'm inspired to move out of the city and get a job on a farm or in a gift shop, where work is work and life is outside of work. Where coming home means lounging in the hammock before cooking up a pot of chili and some cornbread. Where after dinner relaxing includes churning some homemade ice cream on the front porch and watching the fireflies chase each other through the sky. Where the hum of crickets is my white noise machine and the sun is my alarm clock.

There are people who live like this. Trips to the Berkshires remind me of that and inspire me to be one of those people.