Tag: nature
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Eden
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. – Milan Kundera I’m sitting on the veranda of the old mountain cottage, looking at the verdant valley when, through the deep caves of thought, I hear […]
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Walking
Walking without reflection is good for balance, methinks. Cleaving away the ruminative aspect of a stroll like a butcher slicing ham is conducive to auspicious days and nights when the crescent’s whispery cadence quietens impulse and ushers in tranquility. Why should I assiduously scan the pages of my life, trying in vain to strike off […]
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Zilch
Returning from a vacationin that charming, picturesquetown replete with brown,stony mountains and verdant,velvety valleys,petrichor wafting from therich mud outside the quaintcottage I’d rented,the grey-white windows burnishedby colourless, slender fingersreaching down from the heavens,coffee and silver oak,a green, chaotic, dwarfed jungleinterspersed with wafer-thin, tallbranches, I should have feltinvigorated or at leastexperienced some cathartic bliss,a vague communion […]