Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Bagpipes and Melancholia

I have a wonderful CD of bagpipe music, The Spirit of the Glen http://www.discogs.com/Royal-Scots-Dragoon-Guards-Spirit-Of-The-Glen/release/3808222.  When I listen to it, I have such nostalgic feelings.  Some of the songs make me feel nostalgic for the Appalachians. When I drive through them, there is so much mist, mystery and wonderment, and the music evokes that in me.  The song "The Last of the Mahicans" evokes such aching, and nostalgia. I can not explain this well.  Driving East, going through the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, I have such aching and longing. Even going through the mountains of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina and North Carolina, that same aching and longing persists. It is as if I am called to the mountains, the wilderness, the isolation, the separateness that the fog and mist creates. 

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