Be a tourist in your own hometown
Thursday, June 29, 2006
For the past few days, I've had two visitors from Chicago to show around here at home. I've discovered: 1. My friends are awesome. 2. Nebraska is way cool.
I've always liked taking another look at things I've seen a million times before, but I guess trying to impress and entertain Esther and Mo gave me new motivation. As we were exploring the town where I've lived (albeit off and on) for 10 years, I found myself making all kinds of plans to keep happily occupied for the next month. I also spent some time thinking about how often I come up with exciting schemes and fail to execute them. Having only 4 years to spend in Chicago, I was bound to fall short of seeing and experiencing everything I meant to, but it's refreshing to discover that after 22 years in Nebraska, I still haven't exhausted the possibilities; I can still work away at understanding where I've come from and try to apply that understanding to who I am in the present.
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12:47 PM
This is one of those random Nebraska things, actually. It's a shrine that some anonymous donors built on a hill over-looking Interstate 80 between Lincoln and Omaha. I'd seen it from the road for years but had never actually stopped to see it. Turns out it's beautiful. The landscaping around it is natural tall grass prairie, so you can hear what the pioneers heard, I guess (the wind in the grass, that is). It made me think of Cather describing the prairie as something seemingly alive and always moving, like the sea. So, yeah, not a famous landmark, just a hidden gem.