All of us who live in an urban environment are surrounded with noise. Even in my home, I’m likely to turn on the radio to ‘keep up with the news’. I see friends plugged into their EarPods. (Locating a podcast is a skill I still haven’t mastered!) But I do love music of all kinds and will blast Rock while I’m driving.
Yet as a kid who was nurtured by nature. I know the value of returning to it. Her music is completely different. She asks me to come into the silence and listen. When I make time to enter this world, my entire body relaxes. My ears perk up to the slightest sound. My eyes fill with awe. My breathing slows. My skin begins to sense the ambient temperature.
I am called to simply listen to the:
Whispering of the needles of the pines in a breeze
Bubbling in a mountain brook
Rustle of grasses as they respond to the wind
The munching of a moose on willow shoots
The gulping of a bull frog in a farm pond
The swish of a horse’s tail
The rattle of leaves as a storm approaches
The soft unfolding of a flower to the morning sun
The rumble of thunder
The sigh of a horse’s breath.
When I return home, I am different. My spirit is refreshed, my heart opened.
I invite you to make time to return to the natural world and refresh your soul.
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I love this, thank you! Your posts always make me contemplate. About silence and nature, I feel the same way. Sometimes when Katie and I hike together though, we get caught in chatter or evaluating fitness levels in preparation for some sport or the other, and can forget to leave our ‘noise’ at home. Today though, nature reminded us to slow down and quiet down by presenting a beautiful desert tortoise on the side of the trail we would have missed completely had Noodle-the-dog not alerted us to her presence. It was amazing! We watched her for the better part of a half hour as she toddled around on her way to somewhere important, with her wrinkled little legs doing their best over the rocky terrain. We both chuckled afterward about how our agenda for the hike nearly had us missing the whole reason we hike in nature (and not a gym) in the first place! Lots of love, E!
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What a wonderful story! One I think we can all relate to 🙂
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This is so very lovely, Elizabeth! Your photos are breathtaking and your sensitive words bring me back to my holy center. Thank you so much, dear one!
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Your words are beautiful-thank you
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Wow, that morning glory in all its splendor, what a beautiful photograph of such a simplistic flower. It’s as if you captured its aura!
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Thank you – so simple – yet so beautiful – as are most flowers 🙂
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