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Welcome! This is a place to share how we celebrate & deepen our relationship to Nature. Here you will find stories, images, & ideas about wilderness, human nature, & soulfulness. Drawing from the experiences of everyday living, the topics on this blog include: forays into the natural world, the writing life, community service, meditation, creativity, grief & loss, inspiration, & whatever else emerges from these. I invite you on this exploration of the wild within & outside of us: the inner/outer landscape.



Friday, November 14, 2014

Journey

This week is not inconsequential. It is not just another seven boxes to tick off the calendar. It is not just another set of angst-filled days, or work completed, or joyous leisure, or frenetic activity, or the countdown to something terrific or terrifying. This is your life. Your moments. Days that are interwoven with all the others to create a life that is singularly yours.

How have you been navigating your inner landscape recently?

Meandering across a hilltop?
Flying down a snowy slope?
Tiptoeing through wet grass?
Scurrying up into the tree branches?
Gliding on ice?
Waiting in a long line?
Walking barefoot on rocks?
Swimming through fire?
Sailing through the air, or across a choppy sea?
Sitting stone cold silent in a cave?
Splashing in puddles?
Hiking a switch-backed trail?
Clinging fearfully at the edge of a deep drop off?
Scooping up cold water in hands?
Kneeling, sifting sand through fingers….or, bowed in prayer?
Skidding down a path?
Shuffling through fallen leaves?
Tripping over logs?
Standing on the river’s edge?

Whatever movement your current journey takes, whatever landscape it carries you through, may you find peace. Bienestar: well-being. May you see how your precious life is not a throw-away and how every single step on the journey shapes you and our world.




All blog images created & photographed by Jennifer J. Wilhoit unless otherwise noted. Please circulate images with photo credit: "©2014 JenniferJWilhoit/TEALarbor stories. AllRightsReserved."