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Sitting In The Woods More Deeply: Verbal Riff Epilogue

A little while after I wrote the first Sitting In Nature riff, I came up with these additional thoughts about Nature observation.

I work in the field and the woods, pruning, planting, watering. On occasion, I sit deep in the woods to rest.

As I sit, even when I have intention to rest, to connect with Nature, my phone immediately comes out and I read texts, emails, the news, social media.

So if I’m deep in the woods, but still looking at my electronic devices, what am I connecting to? Nature? Am I hearing the message that she’s trying to send me?

Not really.

Maybe I should take a notepad and pen and write down my notes and my notes, and leave the world of Man behind. Maybe I should turn off the worldly, and connect to a higher power, a deeper message, a sweeter song. Only then can I be healed. Only then can I be rejuvenated through the magic elixir, that elixir which Nature and the Creator alone know how to brew and how to serve.

Lying In The Clover: Revolutionary IMprov Sonnet

LyingInTheClover_FrontYard_March2018When you’re lying in the clover
on a sunny Spring day,
you need not mull problems over;
the world seems far away.

Take off your shoes;
lay down your blanket or quilt.
Cast off your troubles and blues.
Relax yourself without any guilt.

Let your heels connect to Mother Earth.
Grab the moment to fee the sun shine all around.
Drink deep of harmony, peace, joy, healing, mirth.
Harvest insights deep and profound.

Your’re shadowed cuz your sweetheart nuzzled up to your face?
Enjoy the warmth of it all. You’ll never find a better place!