Sometimes I get the crazy feeling that Appalachia is speaking directly to me.
Sometimes it’s subtle, and sometimes it seems (at least to me) pretty obvious.
Like the wrong turn I took while driving out in the countryside just days before the end of the year that brought me unexpectedly face to face with a very unexpected street sign.
Why on earth would someone name a road ‘good intentions,’ I wondered (when I wasn’t wondering where the heck I was.)
But then I got to thinking about the past year and decisions made – based perhaps more on good intentions than good sense.
On the first day of a brand new year, maybe it’s time to simply appreciate that positive thoughts had been at the root of them all, let it go, and move on.
Thank you, Appalachia – I can’t wait to see what surprises you have in store for me the next time I lose my way.
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Kristin Fellows is a street photographer & travel writer, based in Asheville, North Carolina. Kristin’s adventures in the past several years have taken her to Iceland to hike volcanoes and photograph puffins; to Barcelona, Mexico, Addis Ababa, and New Orleans for street photography; and most recently, to Athens for a big fat Greek wedding, and to Helsinki to get beaten with frozen birch branches in the city's oldest public sauna.
She has worked as a documentary film consultant on more than 65 films.
Her photograph, “Skywalker,” was chosen as a National Geographic Photo of the Day in 2015.
Kristin is still working on her first book, The Red Moon Letters – a non-fiction, dual-narrative thriller set in Ethiopia during the time of the Haile Selassie.
Educated in both London and the US, Kristin also has a cherished diploma from the Icelandic Elf School (Álfaskólinn.) Kristin is the niece of the late New York Times foreign correspondent, Lawrence Fellows.
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