Day 3,928

As I re-read Life Lived Wild by Rick Ridgeway there are certain lines that resonate deeply for unexpected reasons. One in particular is the following quote after they’ve been in the mountains for quite some time. The clarity Rick feels in that moment is priceless, the types of deep thoughts which only seem to surface once we strip away all the noise and stresses of our daily modern life.

I stood and paused and considered the satisfaction of a perfectly placed tent stake.

Rick Ridgeway, Life Lived Wild

This quote brings to mind my seemingly infinite moments of sitting in stillness and silence on a rock in the middle of a large stream in Porcupine Mountain State Park watching the dragonflies zip across my line of sight eating up mosquitoes, seeming to suck them right up into their jaws. Once of the deepest moments of peace and stillness I’ve ever experienced in my adult life.

Just closing my eyes and thinking back to that memory brings such joy, such stillness to my soul. My heart rates slows, my shoulders relax, my world becomes more clear.

I honestly could not say just how long I sat upon that rock and observed nature in silence, time was irrelevant to me as the water rushed by. The only time was Now, there was only Present.

Thanks!!!