TIME OUT
I don’t know about you, but this year and especially at this time of this year, I’m exhausted. Tired of the rhetoric and the hate speech. I will now stop talking about all that and give you (and myself) a small gift. I present to you several images mostly from nature. Images that do not offend. Images that bring forth memories of quiet vacations, or wanderings in nature. Of staring at water patterns at a shoreline. Of light and shadow, subtle color and the joy and peace of silence. These are all images of quiet places. They are places which hold good memories for me of balance, the bleeding away of stress from my body, the quieting of my mind. These are places I wish I could visit again, as several of them are far away, but even the memory of standing in these places calms my spirit, and dampers the incoming noise of the outside world. I know everyone reading this simple blog post has one or two of these places that they hold dear. With this writing, I would like you to close your eyes