In a span of 10 months, Neil lost his daughter in a car accident, and his wife to cancer (really a broken heart). In an attempt to heal his heart, mind and soul, Neil embarked on a monumental ride on his BMW motorcycle across Canada, America, Mexico & Belize.
Although I am only 98 pages in, I have journeyed across Canada to Alaska, down to Vancouver Island, returned to the mainland and east again to Banff. In his journals, Neil mulled the concept of his soulscape, and the fact that B.C. was very close to it – mountains, lakes, forests.
This got me thinking – what is my soulscape? I always travel with a small brown leather bound journal as you never know what idea fragments might streak across my minds’ eye, so I jotted down the following words to describe my soulscape – ocean, warmth (but not tropical), mountains, trees/forest, clean water (to swim in). Somewhere like Vancouver, but with warmer weather and less rain. I’m not sure if this place exists anywhere in the world– but I can visit it any time I close my eyes.
My soulscape also includes a quiet house on the water (so I can hear the waves on the shore), a wrap-around porch to watch the sunsets, and some fertile land where I can enjoy a modest vegetable patch.
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Hi Victoria. This is my first ever blog comment or, more importantly, visit to a blog site! Time to catch up with the times I guess...Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoy your commentary on many diverse things - keep it up! Your creative talent never ceases to amaze me and I hope you never stop expressing yourself in the many forms you are capable of.
I love the idea of a soulscape and part of me has been looking for it every time I visit a new place.
But the more I refine my idea of a what a physical soulscape is/should be, I realize that it's not about that at all. The soulscape, for me, has turned into the present place and time and is constantly changing. It's what is surrounding us/me at every given moment. In spite of my constant moving around, at every moment I am where I've chosen to be and with the people I've chosen to be with, and the energy they give is part of that, so is the light from the sun and the smell of the earth and water. There's no one place, one perfect place that wholly embodies what my soulscape is, because it's everywhere, or just right here, at the present moment.
Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what a soulscape is. Waves. I like waves. Waves are good. Bro.
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