With that said, everything is fairly quiet between 11PM and 8AM. You may notice that most of my writing, posts, FB banter, etc, happens between these times. I also paint Goddesses or create my Kitchen Witches then, because it is QUIET!!! I can have, and complete, a thought process.
Now that the summer is here, I have another place to escape to:
My hammock. In the mornings, my dog wakes me up between 6am and 6:15am, like an alarm clock. I let him out in the back yard, and follow him to lay down on my hammock :). Decked out with a pillow and my favorite blanket, I snuggle up under my tree. It is so peaceful. If I don't fall back asleep, lulled in the cool morning air.....I listen to the birds, the bees, and other sounds of the morning. The leaves of the tree swishing....Every once in a while I get a sloppy dog kiss (I am at the perfect height when laying in my hammock, he does not have to stretch!), or get knocked in the head with a dirty, slimy, well loved squeaky toy, but other than that, it is PEACE.
BLISS & PEACE?? I realize that I write often of these "spots" in my life. It is because I am very conscious of how "peaceful" I am when I am there. I am not meditating, I am not doing breath exercises, I am doing nothing but consciously enjoying my moment there, without any outside "chatter". Our world is noisy; it seems we are becoming more wired, more distracted, more torn to multi-task constantly.
BTW, even my children have a PEACE spot, they picked it completely unknowingly, and call it that....it is under a weeping willow, buy a stream, in our park.
Where is your PEACE spot?
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I have two Peace spots. One is right outside my back door and it's our garden. When I go outside and weed or just check on everyone growing, it's quiet and peaceful. I notice everyone leaves me alone there. I think they're afraid I'll tell them to start pulling weeds so they stay away! I feel very connected when I'm tending to the plants, it's a very calm, satisfying feeling.
My second Peace spot is the beach. We live less than 10 minutes away from Lake Michigan. You can't hang on to stress when you're at the beach. There's a huge stretch of brilliant sky, sometimes it's gray, sometimes it blends right into the water. Sit down and the sand smooshes around to mold to you perfectly. The water sparkles, sometimes crashing waves but the sound is always there and it's so soothing and rhythmic. Sometimes you can find a piece of beach glass but always you can find a beautiful, smooth rock. I can always actually feel my body completely and totally surrendering. It's true bliss.
That hammock sounds awesome...snuggling in the morning with the birds singing...I would love to put one up someday!
In the little grove of trees in the side yard. We have a small woods across the street and when in the grove I can see only trees all about me. Sometimes neighbors walk right by me (about 20 feet from where I sit) and they never know I'm there - they are not looking around to see what is near them - often with their heads down they walk past. Birds tweet in and out of the grove, squirrels run up and down the trees and last night a doe and her twin fawns came right up to Don in the grove and nuzzled him, sniffing to see what he was, then walked quietly away up the street.
Sometimes I will speak to a neighbor as they walk by and the result is always a laugh and bit of conversation once they realize I'm sitting there. A peaceful place.
In my chair in the early morning with a cup of tea and a magazine before the kids wake up. I swear I can almost hear the house breathe and the water lap against the dock out back, and these are sounds that with the children up and running around, I never hear. I have always had peace spots, even as a child. I found little nooks and crannies underneath the branches of a low hanging tree by water, inside a ring of lilac bushes. I am in love with your hammock!
do you know how jealous I am that you can hammock yourself outside without getting eaten alive by mosquitos?!!! My peaceful place is under the starry night sky (with appropriate bug spray), later on, when it's quiet (day times I can hear atraffic from the not far enough away highway). Lovely piece!
On my back deck, in the morning with a hot cup of tea.
It's the best!
Lois
Kelly, we use the same "weed" trick!!! :)... I love going outside and watering or weeding, gives me quiet time to think.....
Gypsy, I try to get up an hour before everyone else, just to be able to sit and have a cup of coffee in peace :).
Lois, sounds dreamy :)...decks and patios are wonderful.
We ended up buying a new rope hammock, our old one was so patched, it could hardly withstand our evenings of story telling :). This one is even bigger, lol, and now we don't have to worry about falling through any more! Only $32 online....just the rope thingy.
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