It comes down to your view.

I have been kind of emotional tonight. Even the smallest thing caused me to be get teary eyed. I was looking online for postcards. I found a site that had postcards from a trip to every state in the US. I looked at the ones from Wyoming and Utah. The postcard they had posted from Wyoming were from my home town of Green River. The way she wrote about Green River and Wyoming made me realize how beautiful the state is. I guess living in the state for 18 years you take things for granted.

Most people don't know this but I literally lived right next to an area that a famous painter (Thomas Moran) painted. I also lived in the town where John Wesley Powell started exploration of the remaining unexplored territory. When I started to read how beautiful they thought Wyoming was it made kind of miss it. No I don't really miss it, I think I am just lonely for family, friends, and things like that. I miss the comforting things of home and this reminded me of that. I started looking at the pictures by Thomas Moran, really he and I viewed the same area very different. Looking at what he has painted I can see the beauty of the area that I never saw

The sad thing is I have taken a lot of things for granted. I got so comfortable in the way things were that when things changed I wasn't prepared. And really I wasn't viewing things the same way others would. Unfortunately sometimes we have to be away from something to understand the true beauty or value. By now you can probably tell I am not really talking about my home town. I have taken everything for granted my friends, my education, my job, my relationships, and my health. Why is that we have to lose something to see the true value it holds?

This whole thing started in my effort to find a new postcard. I have been looking on the post secret site and decided I am going to make another card. My last postcard was never posted, which is fine but this time I am going to do something different. I am going to make another card and take it to the library and put it in the post secret book. I have read that some others have done that and I think it is a great idea. When someone checks out the book or reads it they will find my postcard. I was thinking maybe to have one side be my secret and the other side blank so they can put their secret on it, or keep it if they wanted. I guess when I am bored I need something to fill the time, so why not this.

This is a painting of my home town. I never saw anything like this when I lived there, yet I passed that exact area almost once a day.