Nature Trail
| “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking” | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”~ Rachel Carson
“There is new life in the soil. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is great strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.” – Kahil Gibran
“Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we’ve forgotten how to listen.” – Michael Roads
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” ~Anne Frank
Time of Zero
Nocturnal spirit
Split
Blanketed in thankfulness
Rests beside self
One to the other
Connected
Time erased
Young child weeping
Tear catcher
Smiling
Living in thought’s forest
A time
Of zero
When all was
When silence whispered secrets
And babe of the evergreen
Opened to discovery
Beneath the giggling trees
Illusion vanished
The puzzle box picture
The patterned pieces
Scattered
Until invisible
And the corridors of phantom’s dreams
Released fully
With angelic breath
~
Sam Craft June 2012
Everyday Asperger's 
Hi Sam: How soothing and so very nice. 🙂
Thanks Sweetie. Hope to visit your blog soon. Been soooooooo busy but happy on vacation. xoxox Sam
Sam, I found this post very pleasing! The sage quotes you offered were in absolute harmony with your own [sage-in-the-making] words and images!
I have to tell you that I really, really, really liked the first image!
So happy to hear. I like that first image, too. The northwest is so wonderful in its green.So glad, too, you found this pleasing. 🙂 Thanks a bunch ~ Sam
Hi there, first time visitor, love your blog – photos, quotes and poetry.
Ashamed to say I know almost nothing about Aspergers, but will return and, hopefully, learn a little and maybe contribute a little.
Cheers
This comment got misplaced…sorry took so long to respond. thank you for your kind words. 🙂
Wonderful images, quotes, and your own poetry today Sam! So agree with Anne Frank, Used same Gibran quote on one of my own posts in March: ….http://throughthehealinglens.com/2012/03/28/receive/
and really loved this from you:
“Illusion vanished
The puzzle box picture
The patterned pieces
Scattered
Until invisible
And the corridors of phantom’s dreams
Released fully
With angelic breath.”
Sending Peace, Love and Soothing today ~ RL
Peace, love, and soothing day embraced fully and sent right back to you. So very tired from 1400 miles of driving so far. But now have some quiet time for a few hours. We are so alike, are we not. Will check out that link. Hugs and lots of love ~ Sea Sister Sam 🙂
Welcome home Sam — such a long long journey…. hope you did ok and had a joyful visit.
Yes — so much alike. I even queried my youngest daughter (now Junior in college) about Aspergers…she did her internship this past year at Harvard/Boston’s Children’s in their Autism division and is a child-development major.. She did not think I was based on he exposure ~ though I told her all about our commonalities. She thinks we are alike in other aspects…but you and I may still need to pow-wow one day 🙂 Sending Love ~ Sea Sister RL
not home yet!!! he he…Still in CA
not home yet!!! he he…Still in CA. 🙂 Yes, a pow-wow soon! Yes, we are alike spiritually. Hugs and sweet dreams…We head home on Tues. pm
ahhh..so you are still tired from the outbound journey! ~ yes – would be as well 🙂 Enjoy the remainder and hoping the return trip is smooth ~ btw – into about chapter 7 of 50 S O G. So far not completely captivated….but entertained!! 🙂 xo
drove 3.5 hours to Carmel/Monterey and back over the last couple days. so 700 miles to Ca. And then 600 plus miles sidetrip…. just returned. I haven’t gotten into the book yet…about page 25…hoping to. 🙂 Hugs to you.
have you read this yet. I read her blog sometimes..Just read it. 🙂
http://sorryiamnotsorry.com/2012/07/07/fifty-shades-of-grey-an-unapologetic-review-of-this-hot-new-novel/
🙂 read it – have to agree so far with most of her analysis — just to the part where he has her sign the contract and introduces he “playroom” — LOL! Will have to give it a bit more of a chance – but so far– just college-girl giggles 🙂 keep me posted if you read ; xo
Hello my lovely, I absolutely LOVE the 5th photo. I would SO love to go and play in there. Oh wow, it looks like dinosaurs might live in there I think. Or tiny little imaginary multi-headed monsters and magical creature that only I know of because they live inside my head and I have been too afraid to tell anyone about them all my life….LOL
Did you draw the smiley faces on the trees stumps? That’s just the sort of thing I do.
When silence whispered secrets
And babe of the evergreen
Opened to discovery
Beneath the giggling trees
These lines made me think. 🙂 What I love about being Aspie is we still have our childlike nature, the trees still giggle when we want them too and we can still listen to the whispering secrets within the silence.
Love you loads. Me. xxx 🙂 ❤
I did not draw the faces…but LOVED them!!!! and would have, had I thought of it. he he….we are so alike…Yes to giggling trees and childlike at heart….it is a wonderful way to live. I love you bunches of banana bread my sweet, sweet, sweet, super kind friend. xoxox Sam
Very nice. Enjoyed the poem and the pictures are beautiful!
Scott
Thank you Scott. 🙂 So glad you enjoyed. Isn’t the Northwest lovely…sigh….Hope all is well with you. 🙂 Sam
I felt like I went on a hike here….The photos are lovely and then the poem…wow….wonderful samtastic…
Everytime Sir D writes “samtastic” an angel gets her wings! Another samtastic in my jar…another upgrade I’m saving for. 🙂 Yes…this was a glorious hike, indeed. Glad to share the images with a fellow tree and green lover. Hugs you. Sam 🙂