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Thank you for sharing your experience with us in nature, Islandtime. There is something about being with nature that always helps me return to a interior place of stillness and peace. I could visualize your walk with your dog. Perhaps you are both feeling lonely without your companions? Good that both of you found some relief together in the woods. To me, loneliness is sometimes the heart saying, please tend to me. Affirm me, nurture me, pay attention to my needs, take me out to be with others who need my gentle, kind, understanding and unconditional ways.
Glad you're here, Islandtime. You helped me take a walk in the woods with you in a cyberspace sort of way.
-- Edited by grateful2be on Monday 23rd of September 2013 11:43:22 AM
Yesterday I took a long walk, through our woods. I hadn't been back there for quite a while. Nothing better,with the fall crispness in the air, to commune with nature. When I started out, I had an agenda of posting "No hunting" signs, nothing more. But mother nature/ HP sucked me in, and instilled some insight, and made me realize I was seriously going to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Now.. those of you that have been following my PITTY party, remember I was really getting ready to get a divorce, which meant having to sell this farm. This farm that we both really love. I have a huge connection with this place. I cannot picture living somewhere else. Now the marriage is what it is. And unless lightening strikes my AH, nothing is going to change there. But I have to find happiness where ever I can find it. So I think for my new plan, what I need to do is, spend more time in the woods, with the dog. ( he is real lonely since his pal died) And just let mother nature/HP work their magic. This should be interesting with hunting season starting in 5 days LOL!! Hope we don't get shot.
I'm also with the holidays coming up, I'm going to plan lots of things with friends, kids and grandkids, and volunteer more, and stay busy and around people and stop rolling around in misery, I'm changing my mind set.
That is one of my favorite things to do.... Go into the woods, close my eyes, and listen to the sounds of the forest and feel the wind and sun on my face. MMMMmmmm....
Hello Islandtime,
Your woodland walk sounds magical and it reminds me of how precious it is to discover that we can choose to enjoy the things we value. I love the nature that is here on my doorstep. It does not matter how upset or far down the pity well I've sunk - after five minutes of watching the breeze in the trees and listening to the birds clever dame mother nature will always manages to find a way to make me smile.
I'm also smiling at your 'baby with the bathwater' comment - that old saying has allowed me to enjoy some very special moments in my home, regardless of the behaviour of AH.
One think that I'm really loving at the moment is the sense of the wind against my skin. I think of where that breeze has come from, how totally connected it is to all the other little air pockets all around the world. So from these woods to your woods, may the wind rustling in the tree tops brings you smiles and happiness.
