3rd April

Breathing

Drawing in deep slow breaths, filling your lungs with the breath of trees and your senses with the sounds of leaves moving in the air, the scents of the individual species around you, feeling a part of our earth as you take the time to be grounded and at peace. It is so easy to be rushing about, nerves jangling with all the demands of our lives, the racket of daily living, and yet it is also so easy to still yourself, re-visit an experience that was peaceful and draw on the remembered sensations for a few brief moments, and then return to the business of living refreshed. Today is the birthday of one of my sons, a special day full  of fond feelings and a wish that things could be easier between us. So I breathe out, and release the sadness there, breathe in, and smile at the happier things we have in common, and breathe out the love I feel for him. Somewhere he is breathing too and maybe a little of that love will reach him and make him smile a little for me.

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Feeling the Wind in your Hair


I love the feeling of the wind in your hair and the smell of the sea. Something within me calls out for the salt sea air and the sounds of the sea birds. If I am away from the sea for too long I start to feel all stodgy and hemmed in, as if there isn't quite enough air to breathe, and no space in my head just to experience being. I get so busy being busy sometimes that I forget the need to breathe, take a pause and just listen, feel the air on your skin, the wind in your hair, and be.