How many people these days have daily moments of stillness in their lives? Moments when the phones are off, nothing is urgent, thoughts of today's or tomorrow's problems are silenced, and even the ever uttering words in the mind stop for a while?
What do you mean? You don't have words going through your mind every waking minute? Tell me what world you live in. I would love to be there.
At this moment I am simultaneously telling Mr. Attitude how to organize the contents of his backpack and find his homework, going over the details of parent teacher conferences in my mind (they were pretty good!), planning meals, thinking about bills to be paid (it's payday tomorrow), blogging, thinking about how lame this post is rapidly becoming, and hearing the noise of the TV in the background. I need to clear my head.
I did go running this afternoon around sunset, since I arrived home a bit earlier than normal. I wore a blaze orange fleece jacket just in case. Three more days of deer season. Running, besides all its great physical effects, helps me to get into a more meditative state and quiets my thoughts a bit. There was no wind, and I stopped once or twice so I would not hear my shoes on the gravel, and just listened to the stillness.
The Hermit went to Crooked Lake today, where a couple dozen trumpeter swans are still resting, and he said it was so still he could hear it whenever one of them fluffed its wings.
That's it, I am taking off early tomorrow and going there.
3 comments:
As much as I love background music, I still crave silence.
My life has been so frenzied in the past while. Even though I'm "at home", (most of the time), the number of things that need to be tended to have me spinning like a top. I like your idea - gonna find me an away spot too.
Ah Deb, that's the beauty of bowhunting for me......even if I don't get a deer, I do get at least a couple hours to just sit, listen to the stillness, and think. And I think we all need that more than we realize.
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