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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, July 16, 2021

inner/outer, soul/nature: a quick journal entry

soul nourishment:  

 

small moments out of doors. 

breath. 

awareness.

reaching out to others. 

getting quiet.

writing across the page.

a short gaze at the bright full-ish moon overhead at dawn.

noticing the quality of color and light change.

reading for the sheer act of it.

creating handmade cards.

sitting outside right after awakening.

cool trees swaying in the breeze.

cloud breaks full of rising-sun colors.

 

by doing these we return to our center

 

we restore inner balance

 

these all soften us so that we can embrace others 

 

feeling fortified on the inside makes us more beautiful on the outside, makes our behavior lovelier

 

we are made more whole, and thus, more loving ...






(Orig. posted in July 2017)



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