Secret Life

Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasures – Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun’s warmth on skin and muscle, the audible rhythm of life’s stir and push- for the price of merely paying attention. What joy! But how unwilling or unable many of us are to pay this price in an age when manufactured sources of stimulation and pleasure are everywhere at hand. For me, enjoying nature’s pleasures takes conscious choice, a choice to slow down to seed time or rock time, to still the clamoring ego, to set aside plans and busyness, and to simply to be present in my body, to offer myself up. Pay special attention to each of your five senses as you describe your surroundings.

Photo by Ildiko Neer
Quote by Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry About Nature
Quote provided by CZ