Writing prompt: a picture …

Today’s writing prompt and my response.

A picture prompt today.

Somehow, along the hippy trail of the 70s, he found he’d been left behind. Or maybe he let the others go on without him, a deliberate choice. For decades he didn’t think about the hows and whys. He was content here, surrounded by the tallest mountains in the world, giving the illusion of an impregnable city. Perhaps from humans. Not from nature. He closes his mind against those memories, those losses.

When tourist business ...