Start The Road Interview "copy between the tags" //

This is an imaginery journey down a road. Take in the sights, sounds and colours, just like a video camera recording all that lies surrounding you. Survey the scene, noticing whatis far off in the distance, the background surrounds, the weather, the season and a total image of what you view. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Try to visualize it as a picture on a canvas, but with movement, sound, colour and emotion. You are the surveyor on this journey. Draw your journey on paper if you desire, as it often shows clearer results, then attach your drawing via snapshot or scan to your post.

Q1. What colour is the road? light brown
Q2. What texture is the road? Dirt with rocks in it, a berm on the sides
Q3. How solid is the road? the road is solid and dry, but not to the point of cracking earth. Dusty is a better way of describing it.

You continue walking and come to a river that must be crossed. There before you is the river; the size and depth are up to you. You cannot go around it but must imagine a way to cross it. Whatever you need to cross the river is already within your mind, just imagine seeing yourself do it.

Q4. How do you cross the river? there is a foot bridge, old and rickety, yet still sturdy. No handles, but splintery like if you crossed barefoot you would surely get a ton of splinters. No handrails, yet wide enough about 3 feet across as not to worry. The bridge is not straight it is almost a half moon, it goes up in the middle and down again.

Q5. What does the water look like? Calm but has some movement, sticks are sticking out of the water and roots and tall grass line the edges. The water is dark but glistening. The water looks cold but refreshing, the water has sound to it.
Q6. How fast is the water current? Slow, very calm yet moving to my right.

Q7. Is there anything in the water? If so, what? just twigs and roots growing out of the water. Roots by the edge, twigs in several locations, looks like trees of past but just twigs. trees that did not get to grow. Sandbars, little muddy sandbars up stream.

You have crossed the river and continue walking. You come to a house. Take a good look at the house. Notice the impression it makes on you.

Q8. What colour is the house? Once White, but now dingy, greyish
Q9. What condition is the house in? disrepair, porch is peeling, steps are worn to bare wood. Windows don't shine. Roof appears sturdy. Weeds growing through the sidewalk cracks.
Q10. Does anyone live in the house? If so, who? I don't see anyone. I don't know. I imagine someone lives there, it does not look abandoned. There are lace sheer curtains hanging in the main floor windows. No cars. Dirt lawn.

We continue forward in our minds journey and come to an open field. A cup is on the ground, and we stop to examine it. The cup can be of any size, shape, colour and description. Focus on it's look, condition and contents.

Q11. What colour is the cup? Orange, faded, white inside, like a coffee cup but no gripper, but definately ceramic, thick like a mug.
Q12. What condition is the cup in? Old but good, just faded.
Q13. Is there anything in the cup? If so, what? Nothing.

You continue walking down the road and come to something blocking your path. It stops you in your tracks and prevents you from going forward. This is an obstacle.

Q14. What is the obstacle, and please describe it in detail? A cows head nailed to a tree, looks like he ran so fast he ran through the trunk, but his head is nailed there.
Q15. What do you see beyond the obstacle? Corn fields, stone walls lining farm fields, the dirt road continues through the fields walls and woods lining the walls.

// End The Road Interview "copy between the tags"

I believe the road is brown and earthen because its back to basics, I have had to go back to basics and start at the basics. The rocks show little trip falls. The dusty is we all must get a little dirty to walk the road.

The bridge is not so much an obstacle, but means use common sense. Keep your shoes on. Walk slowly and you will get to the other side with out terrible pain or harm, go barefoot and you will suffer. I think it will take work to cross, but is not really dangerous as much as takes focus.

The water is not threatening, however to dark to want to swim in, so take the bridge and focus. The water is good and bad, dark but glistens. Have to take the good with the bad or vice versa. The twigs represent life that never got to bloom due to the water. The sandbars are false security as they would not be sturdy, not even as sturdy as the rickety bridge, choose your path wisely and don't get off the path.
I really don't feel what the house represents. I think the house may be me. My hair is starting to grey and since joining this forum stopped coloring it and am letting my hair be natural and grow in. I tell people I earned it when they ask. Might mean I may be a bit peeling and greying, yet livable.

The cup all I can think is it may be faded, but its good and still functionable. I would have no qualms about using it.

I once as a younger girl ran into a cow's head in a patch of woods, it was a bull's head to be exact. There were fly's on it and I stared at it for sometime and it appeared he had stuck his head through the tree. I was repulsed and afraid, yet I looked and then got the Willies. It stopped me dead in my tracks and I have not thought of that bull until just now since it happened or at least I don't think I have thought of him.

Stone, trees and Cornfields, all very steady, sturdy and yet a altered kind of picture of a landscape with oddly up and down lines. I think my future path is still uncertain. What is in the fields. Anymore obstacles on the trees. My path is still up and down.