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November 2009 
What is easy for you?
Posted on Oct 26th, 2009
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Terrill
Terrill
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 26, 2009:
under the charm of the bracken fern
It is easy for me being out where my feet move directly over the earth's natural surface.
I am most grounded, feel most safe, and most alive during these times.
It is like the earth and I breathe as one.
Sometimes it is in time with a Swaison's thrush or a redtail hawk or an olive-sided fly catcher.
Other times it is the rhythmic wind in the trees or the waves on our coastal shore.
I notice - the change of light during the day, the change of the seasons... not just with my eyes - but how these changes smell and how they feel on my skin and what the air tastes like.
Terrill
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experiencing with all the senses working overtime! yes - much love
Terrill,
This answer felt like a refreshing, uplifting walk in the woods and along the shoreline…thank you for inspiring me to get outside today!!
Thanks Nicole and Helen for coming and taking a walk with me. The quiet peace of today is enhanced by your company.
You write with such poetry, Terrill! If feels like we are just with you, and know you and your world a little better.
Thanks Kathy,
I am glad it feels that way because I want you to be right there with me…
Hi, Terrill, I enjoyed that little walk myself, I love being outside, it's where I feel best. So that is a bracken fern? I wondered, we have something similar, it might be the same thing. I have noticed the red-tail hawk sitting in the pecan tree lately, the one that shelters the hen-yard. I believe he is pricing chicken or maybe just wishing.
Hi Sandi,
This bracken fern as it is dying back for winter. It does grow all over and all different sizes. And that redtail hawk - definitely shopping for chicken! They are beautiful though. I love finding their feathers. And you have a pecan tree… do you harvest the pecans? They are a favourite of mine… I can eat a walnut but LOVE pecans.
Hi, Terrill, I have several pecan trees, 6 of bearing size and a few younger younger ones. Oh, yes, I harvest anything the squirrels and crows leave me, I had about 100 lbs. last year. All told, my family picked up close to 1,200 lbs. last year from our trees. We send them to a mill in Alabama have to them cracked and shelled, a great savings on fingers and thumbs!
Sandi that is a LOT of pecans! I think I eat about 10 LB a year… just eat them sometimes with raisins. I cook with them a little but mostly like them all by themselves. Thanks for sharing your pecan world:)
“… the rhythmic wind in the trees” That's the statement that really got me; like a wonderful sweet arrow straight through the heart. Thank you for this post and the beautiful photograph.
Ah yes Laurie… it is true, I too feel it “straight through the heart.” I always feel like I know the language of the wind in the trees. I think that is because of the heart connection you speak of. Thank you for stopping by.