Blog Entries tagged 'nature'

Snow shovelling

kiva@themindfulword.org — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:00:00 +0100

I cross the flight path of the snowflake. Thwack. Cold and wet meets warm and dry. The chemical reaction tingles my cheek, waking me up to the fresh, bright morning. Thwack, thwack, thwack. Feeling it fully I bring myself into the pleasure of it all. Nature, coming down from the heavens as a wake-up call. Not some scenery off in the distance to look at with a few minutes of interest until the next sight comes along, but a purely visceral experience felt as snow falling on the face, heard [...]

Full of space

kiva@themindfulword.org — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:00:00 +0100

I’ve lately come to appreciate the beauty of blank space. On a recent trip from Toronto to Colorado I opted to take the train rather than fly, looking forward to the vast emptiness of the Great Plains to clear my mind from the mental overstimulation of a big city trip. On the leg from Chicago to Denver we rolled past thousands of acres of farmland, interrupted only by small patches of trees and farmhouses. The unrelenting blankness of the terrain lulled my mind into a restful, blank [...]