Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula Michigan

Wisconsin was a short lived driving day but I did stop at a few lakes and flowered areas to take in the beauty I was driving through.

U.P Michigan… WOW! So much beauty and water! I absolutely LOVE the scenery here. I stayed at a great campsite, literally on the bank of Lake Gogebic. This is a rare opportunity to be right by the water and hear the waves and rustling of trees. I paddle boarded and walked through camp. Then I went on a drive, about an hour from camp, to Lake Superior and the Porcupine Mountains. I was seriously in awe of how HUGE Lake Superior truly is. You cannot see across it and it reacts like the ocean. This really put me in check. I needed the energy of the water around me more than I had known. I needed to dip my body in it, sit by it, listen to it and rejuvenate next to it.  I was at peace.

I went back to camp (Lake Gogebic) and decided to write. My emotions were definitely coming into to play now. There is so much I am not telling you, about personal conversations I end up having multiple times throughout the days. I will tell you this. I am NOT alone in my thinking. People from EVERY walk of life have come to me and shared their story of life with me. I do not question it, I embrace it. I am learning to understand that there is a greater mission at work than just myself. I can’t tell their stories, because again, it is not my story to tell. I can say this however… it is amazing what I learn about people on this journey (100s of people), that are lost, sad, needed to take a life time out, needing to laugh, cry, you name it! I have heard it all (so far). My heart breaks that as a society we have learned that we need to stop life to live life. It doesn’t make sense to me. People are drowning and we see it everywhere… drugs, homelessness, anxiety, straying, abusing, trying desperately to have a roof over heads, on our phones (even I am guilty of these things), yet back to that word LOVE, it takes a major event to happen for us all to come together, yet if you look through my lens, life IS in a MAJOR event transformation. Why are we not coming together as humans and helping each other through the daily bullshit we are in? Why does it take an earthquake, hurricane, tornado, shooting etc, for us to see that we NEED each other.?  I for one, am making it my new life goal, to be more aware and be present in these peoples lives that I am crossing. I believe lives cross paths for multiple reasons… we just have to stop and listen, say I love you, say I care and let them tell their story without judgment. It may not fix it, but it is a start and it is validating a human being. LOVE!