The next time you are out for a walk or a hike, pick a spot and listen for the many different sounds you can hear. You may hear soft sounds, like a leaf landing on the ground, the leaves of a tree rustling as a squirrel jumps from one tree to another, a dragonfly whizzes by or a bee scrabbles around ...Continue Reading

I’ve been meditating on the different landscape images from my morning walk. Sometimes I stand and gaze at the entire landscape of trees tracing the patterns of sunlight that filter down onto the forest floor or that spotlight individual plants. Closing my eyes for a few moments, I try to imprint ...Continue Reading

It’s evening. The day is slowly folding up its wings and melting into the approaching stillness of night. Sometimes when there are clouds and moisture in the air, the light becomes rosy, followed by a glorious gold filling the sky like a fiery furnace. I am continually awed by the magnificence of ...Continue Reading

Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew? I’m not talking about food. Rather taking on a project or task, or in this case a hike that was really more than my ability. I recently did that and learned a good lesson in the process. I hiked to the base of Cullowhee Falls (or High Falls) in a deep ...Continue Reading

Sometimes as mortals we get caught up in what is going on around us and miss the big picture -- as well as the small. We lack the heavenly perspective that would give us a sense of peace and tranquility. We look at the world and try to understand it through our own eyes instead of looking through ...Continue Reading