The full moon

over the mountain valley.

It began.

Years of peace began as many new villages dispersed themselves across Europe. Separate but connected by me. Sharing, collaborating, only now, all in Europe, only in Europe. The lessons from Como were learned. The full moon brought awe, wonder, and hope to Adam and Eve’s team as they explored valleys their ancestors passed through centuries before, alone and fearful until the moon appeared. The Adam and Eve twins held their children by the campfire’s dying embers, telling them, “Everything is as beautiful as the moon lighting the valley, but in a different way.”

Then they told them of another place, far away, not nestled in a valley, but snugged up against beautiful mountains, near an old village that they could rebuild and make their own, in America. The children dreamed their own dreams of that other place.

They’d call it by a new name, The Wild Place.