Spent a few days of solitude at a little-known retreat center deep in the countryside along Slippery Rock Creek recently. It was a place of quiet beauty.
The whole point was to get a chapter of my dissertation written without all the distractions, but alas woods, and fields, and streams, and remodeled barns hold their own distractions for the likes of me...
It did prove to be a good place to write, especially since my dissertation is about beauty---a painfully esoteric study in the field of aesthetics, as it relates to my equally esoteric line of work.
There's a near-flatness to the northwest corner of Butler County, and the little back roads wend on for miles and miles between fields and pastures, woods and streams. In a way, nothing special. In another way, extraordinary. The wildflowers are all in bloom.
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