Acadian Easter Drop Out
Sunrise on the East's first place to catch sunrise this was much preferable to me than any kind of Christianized celebration of Easter, which I think next to Thanksgiving is my least favorite Western Holiday. I guess as a child the daunting idea of a 3 hour mass to remind me how Jesus suffered on the cross? Well I only say half jokingly that if you're being narcissistically abused by your father and his borderline wife Patricia Zoe O'Rourke Willitts who wrote me a message that year that she was praying for my death? Yikes I needed a resurrection that was positive and opposite of anything that would remind me of my family out West who abuses my children as well as myself for our last names and my Falk marriage trust so that they could enrich themselves while covering up the sexual abuse of my daughter and my father starts a foundation for the prevention of suicide? Dude you are the cause of the C-PTSD which is creating an environment where your own family members find death preferable to you, but I have made the most meaning I can since the suicide of my nephew William Gabriel Willitts May 6, 2018 and so why not have an authentic natural resurrection within nature and experience the first sunrise in America and drive to the Eastern most point and see first light. Acadia National Park has the highest peak on the Eastern Most Point and so why would I not celebrate the life of the people I love and source my life from beauty. That's Acadia National Park and definitely I recommend Cadillac Summit.
Shannon Falk
4/17/20227 min read
Be the first to catch the Eastern most sunrise in Acadia National Park
Dropping out of Easter in New York and going "Maine-line" to shoot up an Eastern most Experience? Oh hell yes. Bring on the rays.
Early Easter morning? You'll still find fellow Maine sun worshipers
Beat the crowds on Black Saturday. Summit Cadillac Peak at Sunset. Awaken on Acadia's highest peak. Sunday you'll be resurrected!
Isn't Acadia National Park on everyone's bucket list? The East's answer to West Coast overcrowded gems like Yosemite. Acadia is an otherworldly landscape with granite underfoot, scoured with glacial peaks, but because you're in the East? Maine's Mountain Desert Island comes with something you'll never find out West. Vast Atlantic vistas. Visit off season for the solitude of Cadillac Summit which tops off the 47,000 acres of untamed woodland, rocky beaches and the furthermost Eastern peak to catch the Nation's first sunrise. I dumped Easter long ago calling it "Wester" so I came true commune with nature. A place to have a spiritual resurrection if you stake your claim along the 3 miles to Cadillac summit.
What's more exciting than skipping out on a boring New York Easter? Full moon "DownEast" wild wind gusts of anticipation!
The dark lonely cold road up the precipice also means you will have the whole mountain to yourself the eve of Easter, as the park takes no reservations? Hey you need no reservations. Get your ass out and live
I've often found that doing a "drop out" holiday gives us nature lovers solitude in a place that mid summer would be swamped in tourists. Such is the case with Acadia National Park
Cadillac Summit Road is the East Coast's most scenic three mile drive, which leads to the top of the highest peak in Acadia National Park. What could be more exciting than winding the narrow, two-lane road which winds up the 1,530 foot summit in April? Spend the night and avoid having to make a reservations if you go May through October.
Who wants to be home in New York prepping for a long laborious Sunday meal of "Jesus Droppings"? When you can drop into Maine for a "Saturday Night Live" on Acadia's highest peak spent barking at the moon?!
It's hard to decide after my Saturday night immersed in light gusts of snow, my transitive night vagabonding with a quintessential view. What's more delectable? The last rays or the first illumination on high? Debate for yourself, the successful Easter nadir traded for a zenith "Cadillac" ride as your reward for failure to conform.
Happy to confess that Easter Sunday on Maine's highest alter? I'm forever altered, and isn't that the point of any religion?
I always loop the jug necklace which I was gifted in July 2018 to remind me everyday to do something that would make my nephew Gabe smile, and I can't smile on the inside when I think back to May 6, 2018 particularly when I recall the second conversation I had that day with my "other" brother the "Golden" if you understand the dynamics of Narcissistic abuse. On May 6, 2018 just after "the forgotten child" my brother Greg had called to tell me "Gabe hung himself"? Jason a.k.a. "the Golden" followed up with a phone call and told me verbatim "Greg is calling everyone personally. He's calling it his penance." Sadly this is the reality of intergenerational Narcissistic abuse especially where it intersects with religion. The Golden has had no real suffering and is a self professed "yogi" who has inherited my father's penchant for taking pleasure in another's pain. My father the sadistic narcissist? He never could have a real concept of "Catholicism" for as I learned in Michigan my "Grandpa Bill" isn't, wasn't and can't be rewritten as a Catholic, but he got a false narrative by his own son after death as a "skirt chaser"? Grandpa Bill had a whole other life, and another wife in Michigan when he was a Methodist who got a divorce because his first wife? Yep Dottie cheated on him?! That's how you know that the narcissism in your family was handed down from your Great grandmother Sabina to her "Golden" poor immigrant daughter Elda Del Bino, coincidence or hypocrisy? I am aware that my Grandpa Bill wouldn't have appreciated a Catholic high mass with his flag draped coffin to draw attention to his "poor wife" Elda. By the end of her life? Nobody even knew that my grandpa had a first wife and a life in Florida in the 1930's for a decade before he ever moved to California and wound up "stuck" married to my grandmother because I exist. Grandpa Bill's true love was his secretary Etta, long before his son got a sophomore high school girl, my mother Patti O'Rourke (that's Patti with an i not y) whose pregnancy produced a little girl, a child named Shannon Willitts who both Patti with an i, not y and William Guido, not Donald could use. Why I checked my birth certificate:( in 2020. I'm a born Willitts. Almost like my father and grandmother Elda used me to keep her shabby marriage intact? But if you want to see what narcissism after death looks like? Check out my grandmother's obituary. The woman seems to have claimed every success of her husband, and attributed his accomplishments to herself and my father, but to be fair to the dead narcissist Elda? Her Golden and only son William Guido Willitts did write her obituary. He's a narcissist, so of course he used his mother's death to praise himself. Don't worry. I'm sure my grandma "Elda" would approve- lol. The man (Guido) ditched religion when he bought his daddy's business in 1978. As some version of Willitts, whom my grandmother at least rightly identified as a "Nancy Boy" when he was getting his Kenpo black belt in the 1990's. Long before that the man is only ever interested in playing God, and playing Old monied entitled to old friends who aren't impressed because they won't be surprised he stole from his daughter's 1989 marriage? Shannon Falk? Equally unimpressed by all things with a Willitts "Design". I've seen how that's worked out for my brother Greg. My poor kid brother is/was a self proclaimed Atheist up until the day he made phone calls about his dead son and called those penance because he resents my parents sending him to a Catholic school. No wonder my half Jewish daughter Zoe-E (Elizabeth) please don't confuse my daughter with my mother has been gaslit by the woman who changed her name from Patti to Zoe in 2001 when she moved to Sister's Oregon and my mother's the one of her grandparent's who is just fine using the good Jewish Gertrude Falk's last name (and my mother in law's money) to further her ill-gotten Willitts gains, all the while woman is a flaming anti-semite? Zoe-E Falk was moved to Sisters Oregon like a ghetto Jew in WWII? To have a horrible childhood repeat where "work" was her forced religion? Isn't that a theme at Dachau's concentration camp? These days? Greg uses denial to cope, and that's what Zoe Falk has intuited and my daughter is a born runner, going, far, oh so far from the active, silent cycle of abuse which continues to this day in Sister's Oregon. I'm guessing Greg might not be able to deny that there's an "Elda Willitts" building on the Five Pine Lodge "Campus"? Umm you're running the chi-chi hotel, almost like the woman didn't die on January 11, 2005? Almost like her son Bill Willitts is still using the Shannon and Michael Falk Marriage Trust in Sisters Oregon? Factoid, the woman (Elda willitts) has been dead since 2005, same year my marriage died in case you get confused? I knew the old lady (my grandmother's) true colors since I was fifteen and forced to be that freak's (Elda Willitts's) traveling "companion"?! Ewe, Icky, gross!! Just that memory makes me damn glad I'm staying gone East since July 3, 2018. I didn't survive my nephew #adventureongabe to watch his social media disappear, his name now some "positive" hashtag? What's positive? Ending all cycles of abuse!! Zoe Falk has it right with her hashtag #ownyourlife but listen baby girl it takes a minute when it's Falk's with Willitts's designs-lol
If you're the veteran eldest sister with four younger brothers and your father's a serial narcissistic abuser? Then your "job" is to observe and write your findings as you push on to the summit!!
