We step out of the car and it overflows us at once. Scents, colours, shapes and sounds. Their garden is chaotic firework and peaceful haven at once. As I step into it, my body and soul both shift down a gear. It has the perfect blend of beauty, use and wilderness. Flowers planted to suit the needs of bees, of butterflies and bumblebees. Grass and hedges left uncut for the sake of hedgehogs. Salads in variety casting their green promises towards the sky. Strawberries, black and redcurrants, blackberries, gooseberries, apples and pears for the kids to discover with eyes alight. Everything pushes, twirls, climbs, stretches, blooms. Blues and pinks, yellows and whites, orangeas and purples. And greens in endless variation.
Stand still, close your eyes, and listen to the choir of humming voices of insects singing the way for sunbeams. Bees and beetles. Butterflies and black flies. Wasps and bats. And birds singing, cooing, chanting, tweeting. Spiders stretching their thin, long legs around cracks and corners to lay their fishing net out at night.
So soothing this calm life force flowing. So inspiring this creative outburst. (Awakening, it seems, the teenage poet in me too ;))
Stand still, close your eyes, and listen to the choir of humming voices of insects singing the way for sunbeams. Bees and beetles. Butterflies and black flies. Wasps and bats. And birds singing, cooing, chanting, tweeting. Spiders stretching their thin, long legs around cracks and corners to lay their fishing net out at night.
So soothing this calm life force flowing. So inspiring this creative outburst. (Awakening, it seems, the teenage poet in me too ;))
The second best thing for me, when my soul is hurting, when I feel lost or depressed, is to go outside and connect. Feel the grass and earth beneath my feet and hands. Smell the different flowers and herbs in the air. Hear the birds singing. And just taking in the greatest work of art there is with all my senses as much as I can. Nature, both wild and cultivated, never stops amazing me. And my father's and his wife's garden is one of my absolute favorite places in the world to be!
What places do you connect to the most?
What places do you connect to the most?