The Mountains are Calling and I Must Go

Finding Home in the Embrace of the Blue Ridge

Beth Bruno
Nov 7 · 5 min read
The Blue Ridge Mountains from the top of Mount Mitchell, North Carolina — Photo by Beth Bruno © 2019

The mountains are calling and I must go…
John Muir

I look up as the car rounds the curve and, there, a panorama of mountain and sky spreads out before me. I take a quick breath. Then I exhale. I am home.

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Beth Bruno

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Lifelong spiritual seeker with a desire to learn to live fully, love unreservedly, forgive completely and suck all the juice out of life.

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