Our Quest–My brother’s and mine ended at a small boat ramp from where we would board a small boat and take the short journey with that was left of my parents confinement in small boxes– to the placed they’d made our goal so long ago.
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz features protagonist Dorothy, who is on a quest to find her way back home. … Dorothy develops new understanding and self-knowledge during her sojourn of Oz, symbolized through her friends: brains, heart, and courage. Mark Flanagan
https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-quest-851677
Then we came to a narrow finger of land pointing east, a place my folks had enjoyed, spent time about and long ago voiced for the first time their desire to have their ashes to be scattered there. I have taken no picture of the actual scattering of the ashes, their floating in the water or any of that—I can describe them but that was something that Guy and I shared privately—-it is the children’s shared memory too precious for pictures:
Guy who had been the caretaker–fittingly as the only son–pulled the boxes of ashes out of his bag opened and slowly poured the gray powder that is all that remains of the laughing photographer, who told silly jokes, read constantly and who was “My Daddy” first and then My Mom–the dependable woman who never in my entire life let me down, who enjoyed and put up with the craziness that was daddy and 3 children who were so different in oh so many ways and still came up sane. Who was so long a Tom Boy that she accepted a daughter who failed to learn her place in life…..Both went into the cold sparkling waters and we for a moment watched their movements on the surface spreading, becoming part of this place they loved. Then we said our private good byes and Guy said a short prayer.
Then we were headed back to shore leaving the place to the birds, fish, and my parents. We had fulfilled our obligation to our parents. But I feel that my parents would still feel that we have other obligations to maintain: to be the people they worked so hard for us to be–to try at least to be kind, honest, someone who helps others and tries to make at least our little part of the world a bit better—something you don’t see enough of in this day and age.
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.
English legend
As with all quests once they are completed then one must return home…or in our case to our camping place which involved crossing great water–but luckily we had a great bridge to do so on.
The next day we left Mackinaw city and found our selves back in Lansing for a night and then on to Ohio (both stopping at the places we’d been to before) and then a return to West Va.
I will do one more episode to finish my quest story and then I’ll return to the 60’s—in my Blogs I haven’t perfected time travel yet—otherwise I’d be going thru those stones.
Well, you should try it someday; you might get a taste for it.
Tristan
yes I know Droughtlander is over but can’t give it up—sorry
No more Tobias? https://hiddenremote.com/2017/09/27/5-best-moments-outlander-season-3-episode-3/
Sneak preview of episode 4: http://tvline.com/2017/09/27/outlander-season-3-episode-4-video-claire-pearls/
And another clip from 4: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a12475020/outlander-of-lost-things-clip/
“Then go, and I shall follow you”
Merlin
“Ruber: A spear. How stone age. A king would hold a nobler weapon. A king would hold Excalibur.
Quest for Camelot
All those standing there gazed, and warily crept closer,
Bursting with wonder to see what he would do;
For many marvels they had known, but such a one never;
So the folk there judged it phantasm or magic.
For this reason many noble knight feared to answer:
And stunned by his words they sat there stock-still.
(237 – 243)
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
