Flowers, blossoms and thoughts along the way

Another day at the Earth World theme park!

Where am I going today and what am I going to do. As I write this morning, I am listening to music (smiley face here!) and I am peaceful. I like feeling peaceful.  I see with my eyes, hear with my ears, taste with my tongue, smell with my nose, feel with my fingers, and all the while I am changing physically every day, all day, all night, but later in the day I am going to forget that and lose myself in a flow of activities.  I won’t remember that I have all of these senses for me to experience the Earth World. Nearly everyday I get so busy that I forget to "stop and smell the roses" although stopping (ceasing activity or being still) is very important for rejuvenation and for allowing life's energy to flow.   

Every now and then I get to see flowers either before the sun has fully risen or at dusk  I notice their petals are closed.  They close each day and open again when the sun is high in the sky.  I also feel something like “how sweet” they are waiting for the sun.  Flowers and plants are silent as far as my range of hearing goes, but they express themselves beautifully in the way they grow. They are an amazing testament to the creative force around us.

Trees are amazing too! I used to carry an infant outside to see nature.  That infant wanted to touch the trees.  He would place his little baby hand on the tree trunk and then look up at the tree towering overhead.  I wondered what the infant saw and why he wanted to touch the tree.  I remember thinking that he knew the tree was alive. I developed a deeper respect for the trees observing this interaction after some months.

This beautiful tree lives in the Marin Headlands park.  It was silent but its expression touched me.

In our social awareness particularly in urban environments where so much of the earth is paved over, we have a lot of noise going on.  So if something isn’t making noise we overlook it (or forget it exists for a while) until we experience a moment of silence.

Sound is a gift and its range is very wide. We also know that there are sounds we cannot hear. Perhaps plants do make sound on some level.  Human beings make a lot of sound, speech, moving things around, our machines (cars, trucks, boats, factory machines,  motorcycles) beautiful sounds too, like music.  

Someone once said that silence is golden.  It is. Perhaps the balance between sound and silence is carefully selecting the sounds you will make and the sounds you will listen to.   

What are you going to listen to today?  Remember even what (or who) you listen to is a choice! Life is beautiful and so is the Earth.

Be well and be happy!