Sitting with an oak today. Feeling

the freedom of life here in the woods. To find stillness in nature. To rest upon the banks of a fast flowing stream. For here there is the quiet within the flow of gentle noise. The stillness within. Where momentarily all becomes one..... the air and the stream and the trees.....the birds and the earth and the leaves on the earth and the branches above. A rush of life that rises inside....infusing through all...yourself at one with the sky and the earth. Where all that is here is now. And all is revived and renewed and awakened inside. A deep happiness that becomes the lightest of laughter echoing through the trees.