Thursday, February 15, 2024

Always the silence

     The sky was faintly gray when Miriam Stark climbed the thread of a trail to the top of Rockinstraw Mountain, a single rose-tinted cloud above the horizon giving only a suggestion of the glory to come with sunrise. Yet there was enough light to see the web of faint trails, each leading to some vantage point from which the country could be observed.

    She loved this place, for even on the hottest day there was a faint stirring of wind, and always there was silence, an unbelievable silence that left the mind free to wander without interruption.

(from Taggart, by Louis L'Amour)

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