Getting some fresh air....

I felt like writing today about my trip to visit a friend in Wauconda. She's in the women's group I am a part of from church. She and her husband moved to a house on the lake there. I pulled into her housing addition and literally breathed deeper than I have in a long time as I saw the lake splashing up on the shore. I can't describe it. It was like I could breathe.
I wonder if there's something I'm missing or have neglected in my soul. Just the other day some friends asked me if I regularly got away from the city. They had not grown up in the city so were onto something regarding people's need to get up out of this overpopulated, undergrassed, horn-honking wonderland I am now calling home. I think it all clicked as I came wheeling my ford focus around the corner and saw this vast lake and felt the crisp wind. Ohhh.
Maybe I've been starved for space and beauty and time to sit and think in God's wonders without someone being all up in my space. I'm wondering now if that's why I've taken such a liking to my blooming amaryllis and tulips. I gotta work on this people. I've just got too.