Connections

All things have a voice if I only listen.

This world is like living at the United Nations. Without interpreters there is likely to be a lot of misunderstanding, but nature has always thought that left on our own we will slowly pick up the cues around us. Like toddlers immersed in a foreign language.

That was probably more true before the days of television and cell phones and Internets.  Now people are distracted by a million different things and taken care of by "experts" who know better than we do.

Thinking this is enough is a sad misconception.

There is a beauty to knowing that when the leaves turn a certain way, it is going to rain and noticing the smell of rain in the air, the cooing of the rain doves, the flight patterns of geese, or migration patterns of Monarch butterflies. The patterns of a life lived around nature makes sense. It brings peace of mind and comfort to me knowing that I have a place in all this.