You can stand on a high point in the town I came from and see to the horizon in every direction. The wind sweeps across the land virtually unimpeded. When you look up at a night sky it reminds you how very small you are in the vastness of creation. You are of the humble soil on the prairie, and the breathe of infinity blows through your hair.

I’m sure that people who are from other types of places feel the same things sometimes in the ways that their part of the world speaks to them. Maybe when you’re on the fire escape in New York and you can hear the cacophony of humanity at all hours of the day and night it’s the same kind of thing. I didn’t live that, so I don’t feel it in the bones the way I do when I think of Kansas on a clear night. Where I live now is similar, but not the same. It’s not as level and vast. You can see the edges, the crinkles of the world sometimes. The distant purple of the mountains obstructs your view on the clearest days. Of course I can’t see that far anymore, but there was a time when I could. I’ve never seen the ocean, but I bet it’s like looking across the flat land in some ways. Of course the land never rises up to get you, but the wind comes down to swat at you from time to time, so everyone has to be aware of environmental hazards in their own way too. XD

Another week is drawing to a close. I hope I improved your journey in some small way. Take a moment to be a small human in a wide world this weekend. It helps keep you humble. See you on Monday.

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I find it funny sometimes how I can randomly come across someone on the Internet that reminds me of myself so much.

So, Vicky is deceptively well developed up there, at least from the front. Bridgette Baxter? Cute name. Seems both are flirting with John. Well, Bridgette is making some obvious hints if John can notice?

I feel like both girls are throwing some bomber level hints John’s way and he doesn’t quite grasp…Or it might be he’s not sure if he should.

Yeah, when recounting your love-life woes, sometimes you *want* the listener to “comfort” you, and sometimes you don’t, and sometimes, *if they persist*, you can be persuaded.

I’m not sure this even counts as a hint; Bridgette basically just propositioned him

In all fairness to the guy, it took the last panel for me to notice that either of them was flirting. I can’t be the only one, right?

I think Bridgette successfully clue-by-four’d him in the last panel, we’ll have to wait and see though. But it’s never a plot hole if a guy doesn’t pick up on flirting, that just happens. Although, the only situation I suspected a lass was flirting with me in the last decade, I evaded (hopefully gently rejected without directly acknowledging it) because of a ‘don’t date coworkers’ policy

For me it was being able to stand on the first ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains, and feeling small knowing the distance across the valley to the next ridge; and having seen the ocean I remember having that odd sense of one shade of blue meeting another at the horizon and getting a similar peaceful feeling – we do indeed have the same feelings matching our own environments.

As to the comic again really loving this trio’s dynamic, I’m glad we’ve gotten a chance to get to know them better. Will also add that while clothing colors do change in this comic (which is nice), for some reason also really digging the green/dark blue/light blue color scheme with them as well; can’t quite put my finger on it, may just be as simple as personal taste.

I’ve never seen the prairie, so perhaps I will take that as analogous to never having seen the ocean? It’s been so long so I lived in a dark sky place, though. The closest I have come to feeling this sort of awe (within memory) is inside a large cave, thinking about the patient drip of aeons.

I didn’t realize it was ever possible to see the mountains from Kansas. I used to go to Fort Morgan as a kid, and I recall barely being able to see them from there.

What sucks for me is I can’t get that feeling anymore, at least not easily, as I live nowhere near where I grew up, both by distance and in terms of geography. Going from a forested wetlands to near-desert is quite a shift, and I often miss home. I miss the rain, the brooks, the squirrels playing in the trees, the constant swaying of the branches, feeling cool in their shade, and just the greenery in general. If literally all of my family didn’t live here now, and it wasn’t 1200 miles away, I might move home.

:o My parents are from Fort Morgan. So nice to hear it mentioned. :)

Thank you for sharing this. It reminds me of vistas I’ve once seen and never forgotten.
Gods, I miss dark skies but I know they’re still up there behind everything.
Thank you for stirring old memories.
Interesting fact. A lot of what hides the sky in cities is city lights shing on sky crap.
Decades ago one of my country’s major cities had a really total power blackout..
Amongst all the confusion some people looked up to a sky they’d never seen before or which stirred outback memories. (I’m in Australia) No internet then but lots of people going WTF loudly.
Thank you again for stirring old memories. And thank you for your tale.
I’ve enjoyed it for years but I’m not sure I’ve ever thanked you for it before.
I really should have. Thank you very much.
And I do hope a happy answer for John but it’s your tale. You do you.

I use to live near the beach until my family moved me far inland.

I’ve always felt a mild sense of claustrophobia living here in a forested, hilly section of the US. You can see decently far driving down a highway, but otherwise it feels like living in a maze.

The last time I was at the ocean, I remember thinking to my self, “This is how it’s supposed to be. I should be able to see the endless horizon, unobstructed.”

I wonder if I would feel more comfortable in the prairie than Appalachia.

I’ll still watch this old YouTube video witch really makes me feel small. It starts out Street level somewhere on the planet and then slowly pulls out until you see earth, then the solar system, the galaxy and so on. It keeps going and going until we reach the observable universe. We are so small in this beautiful universe.

I like your comment. :D
I like big, open spaces, like beaches. :)
I’ve lived in a number of towns, in the USA.
For whatever the reason, I seem to like living in states that border a sea, + also large lakes, like maybe one of the Great Lakes.

I don’t know why that is.
Maybe my ancestors liked being on ships at sea, and pretending to be: pirates, or pretending to be the navy guy in novels…Horatio Hornblower[tm], or something.
:D

I see your, “you might not get a thing you want.” And raise you a medium-attractive, romantically shy guy who took a little too long to realize not every girl that was interested in him was a good option.

For me it was the Allegheny river.
Watching that vast amount of water flow by season after season would sometimes make me feel just how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of everything. Back when we used to get cold winters it would freeze over, and the awesome power of the water in spring when the ice would start to break up and cause ice jams and flooding is such a solemn reminder of natures power.

I don’t remember but have we been given Bridgette’s last name before this?

I do hope we get so see some more of Bridgette. She seems fun, but I think she’s probably the member of Alex’s club we’ve interacted with the least.

Honestly, she seems the most… accessible? Manageable? Particularly for someone like John appears to be. Alex and Victoria are great, sure, but seem somewhat burdened by an awareness of their own grandness which isn’t the most desirable characteristic in a partner by my measure. Bridgette seems lighthearted and easygoing in comparison with the, say ‘dynastic’ parameters of the other two.

I grew up in the coal country of Pennsylvania. Mountains all around. The first time I went to the prairie and saw a flat horizon all around, I’d never felt so…I dunno, exposed in all my life. It was a weird feeling

I grew up in the rolling hills between NYC and BOS with some trips to the north. But one can feel very small going down to the beach and staring out to what would be another continent (except for the curvature of the earth).

On a trip to Indianapolis ages ago I went to Monument Circle, took all the steps up I could, and thought I could see Ohio to the east and Illinois to the west.

Look at her, slappin’ up dudes like she’s the pope of pizzatown.

…anyone feels like drinking a candle at this point, I welcome it.

See, the move now is to get Bridgette, Jon and Victoria in a throuple of side characters that are awesome furries and call themselves “The Poly-cool.”

That sounds like fun.
[I would] read about that!
:D

“The Poly-Cool”.

Consider that officially stolen. lol

In the Navy we had something called dark ship, all the lights were shut down. You could see horizon to horizon. I’m not as good with words as you are, but yeah, it was like that. It makes me wonder what it feels like for an astronaut.

Wow that sounds incredible. Not to mention that you’re probably getting away from a lot of the light pollution on the ocean, so the stars should be in full force too right? I haven’t seen a truly starry sky since I was like 8.

I live in a country that has put as much stuff between its contracted borders as it possibly can, and tries to this day to keep it all neat and in order and everything in its proper place. It’s stifling, but safe. Despite almost two decades of a hands-off, wannabe Libertarian government, those who can’t keep up are taken care of to an extent. It’s a bit of a bubble, but I don’t think I’d want to live everywhere else. Maybe because I never have. It does mean that travelling and being abroad will probably always be a glorious, extraordinary experience.

Maybe this is event is a lead in, to a larger conversation, where these two women say to John:

“So, you missed a dating opportunity, with a smart + fun woman. That stinks. You could try to find another one.
There are [more] fun + smart women that you can consider, like MAYBE one of us! Maybe?”
:D

Honestly at this point I’m wondering if it would necessarily be ‘one’ of them. Alex has inferred that her friend group has its fair share of kinksters

Bridgette, + John, + Vicky, as a threesome kind of item?
Cool!
:D

In scenes in nature:

looking at clear + flat places, like:
huge, grassy fields, or at a desert scene [through a window], or at calm + empty lawns, are places that I like to see- when I want to see peaceful + beautiful, natural places.

I grew up a block and a half from a mountain, and my family would often go for drives up the nearby canyon. Near the canyon mouth are rock strata tilted nearly vertical, and a little further up, the strata are folded into a Z shape. I loved to gaze at those formations and try to wrap my finite mind around the sheer force that could do such things to mountains.

2976 Bridgette Hanna Baxter.

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