religion and philosophy
what I’d learned in the churches and schools
were all too heavy
for this travelling life
all that remained to me was poetry
as unobtrusive as breathing
a poetry like the wind
and the maple leaf
that I spoke to myself
moving over the land*
Kenneth White

See it all.
Touch it all.
Hear it all.
Taste it all.
Do it all.
Appreciate the wonderful physical world.**
Derek Sivers

I wonder now whether I was born on the edge of a town where
it met the Yorkshire countryside, or born on the edge of the countryside where
it met the small market town, but I think I knew the words
before I spoke them: I need a day to have fields in it.

More than ever, Spring fills me with awe; I notice with deep down thankfulness how
that which had seemed so dead for so long returns to life –
An affection, I sense, not only borne of my nearly sixty six years, but from the tens,
If not hundreds of thousands of years of nature imprinted on my soul.^

*Philip Newell’s Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul;
**Derek Sivers’ How To Live;
^Some who live in cities may report how they are unnerved when they find themselves in nature, but this is the result of a much more recent history, and they need to give themselves time to remember.