Life is best lived if not productive all the time. Time is well spent just sitting by a small fire on a Friday Fall morning. The air is cool, the fire warm, the sunlight on the yellow fallen leaves is soft. Time is of lesser importance than when busy being productive. In those productive times, time itself becomes a measure of productivity. Not so sitting by the fire. Watching the small stems and branches burn is like watching time burn in a way. It took time, quite a lot of time for those plants to absorb the energy of the sun and grow into stems and branches. And now as they burn it is like that time is being released rather quickly. And so I just sit, not being productive, yet feeling life. Taking time, planning for time, to just sit is needed to really live life. I cannot think of a better place to do that than in nature. It doesn’t have to be a long time, even a half hour or an hour will do, if that is all the time, time will allow.
Author: wapatangawilds
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Creekstones
Creek Stones
Lying on creek stones
On my weak bones
In a nature’s wild
Feeling an inner smile like a happy child
A gust of south wind blows and I feel light as a feather
Free for now of any worldly tether
Stepping out of the human pace
Burning sage smoke blows in my face
Eye level with water flowing in a crystal stream
It’s so much more than just a dream
Like the sky so blue my heart feels true
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Alone in Nature
Alone in nature I am most aware of being alive and least aware of time.
I like to refer the locations I visit alone in nature as a Wild. To animals and plants, a Wild is life. It occurs to me that maybe it should be that way for humans, for me, too. I tend to go a Wild to extract something. Maybe I should go there more just to be. A Wild does not seek achievement or recognition. It does not seek to be beautiful or inspiring. It just is. It exists. We humans assign to it things like beauty. We are full of “assignments”. Perhaps we, I, should go to a Wild to escape such human “assignments”. Humans tend to avoid even fear a Wild. I like to embrace it.
Wapatanga Wilds 