Mountain metaphor

We are still in the month of September. I wrote this after climbing Mount Washington on Sept. 11, 2012. Sometimes looking at the past gives us a different perspective about today, about what is progress and what is simply human nature. Just writing the office and name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton automatically brings us back to another time, with different struggles. Or are they essentially the same?

In the magical world of metaphor, mountains are a “living, breathing” example of metaphor. Once I felt that strongly on a hike up Mount Monadnock, a mountain that stands alone.