Creative Writing: Bell Smith Springs, Southern IL

One moment you’re carving into gravel back roads with the windows down into the horizon of your next adventure; The next— strung between worlds—hung between timelines—you’re descending measuredly down into the forest, you can’t help but feel the exhilaration of what’s awaiting. A staircase carved between boulders trepidatiously conveys ‘you’ve wandered onto time worn lands’. As one foot is hastily journeying toward what’s around the corner, the other moves slowly in reverence to the hands that laid these steps sometime in the 1930s.

Bell Smith Springs of Southern Illinois is a treasure waiting to explored.

An endured land sure to give you everlasting memories of sweet silence and rich history, or even a lesson:

Perseverance opens doors—or rather, carves a alternate path into— surprisingly exquisite landscapes that have the potential to hold you in the rest you’ve been longing for.

Thanks for reading —

Stay central to your inner flame,

Jess