H is for Hilltop

If you could sit with me here on the hilltop, you’d be surprised what you can see. If you arise early enough, you can watch the sun rise over the trees and, if you slow down at the end of the day, you can watch it set across the vale. From up here you can watch the weather change…clouds skirting the sky or settling into the valley, storms sweeping in as lightening cuts through the clouds, birds soaring and diving on the wind.

You can watch the traffic down below, and while you sit idly by, you can count people coming and going, all so busy and blind.

A hilltop is the perfect place to enjoy the breeze on a hot summer day, to launch a sled in the snow, to tug at a kite, to count the stars.

If the valley feels safe, the hilltop is bold. If the valley is deep and dark, the hilltop is high and bright. If you’re feeling down, come on up. Lift up your spirits here on the hilltop.

If you’re in a valley now, won’t you join me on the hilltop?

“The marvelous richness of human experience

would lose something of rewarding joy

if there were no limitations to overcome.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful

if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

--Helen Keller--

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