Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find

_{-Terry Tempest Williams}

Spending time with family is the best feeling in the world. A few weeks ago I moved away from my hometown and it has been a little difficult to get used to being away from everything I have ever known and loved. Sometimes when life gets in the way we don't have the time for family like we should. Once we get that time back, it feels so magical. My family likes to find things to do that won't dent the nonexistent money in our pockets and what better way to have a lot of fun for free than going outside?

Last week I got to visit with my mom and the weather was finally nice so we took my daughter and nephew to walk the railroad tracks. They have never seen tracks up close and it was really nice to spend time with them and make up our own fun games as we went along. There aren't any trains that go down it and it seems to be a popular walking spot. Given that it is mainly walked by the homeless and college students, the place does have some trash thrown everywhere.

I'm no magical photographer but a girl can pretend, can't she? I like to find the beauty in the small things and well, everything. I stop along the way and start taking pictures of the trash. My 7 year old nephew says, "Um Aunt Kimmy, why are you taking pictures of trash?". I couldn't really find a good enough answer to explain myself and wasn't sure if I even would find beauty in them when I was done so I just said, "I don't know yet, bud."

The children surprisingly had a lot more fun on the railroad tracks than we expected them too. We ended up finding railroad spikes all over the place that had fallen out of the tracks so the kids pretended that they were about to go vampire hunting and the spikes were for them to hunt with. No, we did not let them play with them but everytime they seen one they had fun pretending.

We walked the railroad tracks for about 45 minutes to an hour. Although we did have fun, we were a little nervous because it is home to so many people who have to take what they can get, when they can get it. My mom carried her taser and I had the pepper spray, you can never be too cautious when it comes to the protection of children! It was a very nice and relaxing walk though. As always, we filled the air around us with the sound of laughter. Of course we couldn't finish the day without a little ice cream so we headed to the ice cream shop to finish up the day.

The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep

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A Walk On The Railroad Tracks

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find

The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep

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