ALL NATURE HAS A FEELING
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence they
Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;
There's nothing mortal in them; their decay
Is the green life of change; to pass away
And come again in blooms revivified.
Its birth was heaven, eternal it its stay,
And with the sun and moon shall still abide
Beneath their day and night and heaven wide.

i have been so so lucky to have spent the past few weeks immersed in nature, which is truly what brings me utter inner peace.  away, at the beach, lots of sun, few worldly worries, sunrises and sunsets, walks, picking seeds and making the eye more acute to every little detail, outdoor barbecues and picnics, improvised searches above in the sky and below on the ground, buying fresh vegetables at the market, relishing in the colours, the smells, the textures, the surprising plenty.  if only life were that simple, always!   the beauty of it makes me want to drop everything and extend these errant days into a complete sabbatical year.  oh how important that sounds. and since i have never taken a sabbatical year, maybe now is the time.  i DO have the opportunity to stay a few more months down in the south of chile in a little house my brother envisioned out of a container.  i am thinking about it, i am thinking, why not plunge into an adventure? ...and in nature (have you ever heard about the chilean and argentinian patagonia?)