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The Cabin in the Woods



My place where I feel at peace is at my dad's family's cabin in the heart of the Adirondacks  that sits between the first and the third tallest mountains in New York State.  Sitting a ways from a lake, the cabin and kitchen, made of all logs, with no electricity is just a place to escape.  On summer mornings, we get up early and take canoes out onto the lake, drifting through the morning mist hearing the loons on the water.  This place means so much to me since I've been going there my whole life.  The sad thing is, it's changing all the time.  Just this past year, cell towers were installed in the Adirondacks after they never had had them.  This changed the whole feeling of the place and the escape that it was capable of.  However, this place still is able to calm me just thinking about the solitude.  I remember one time we went there and decided to go out on the lake once it got really really dark.  My brother went out in the kayak that we had brought up, but my dad, my other brother, my little sister and I took a canoe.  One of the best feelings I've ever experienced is laying down on my back and just seeing a clear sky full of stars to infinity.  Especially on the lake, you can look up and only see the navy sky as it stretches out connecting me to the mountains and to the universe in one, and it feels like I'm floating in the sky.  This cabin on the lake that I have the privaledge to experience gives me solace, and I am completely at peace, my mind blank, and a part of everything around me.