Typically, Sunday is my non urban day. (although...this evening Ana and I had dinner and went to see our friend Nate in a play...so tonight was a Philly night...kudos Nate to a wonderful job...my "soul man").
On non urban days I prefer to do very un urban things. After a few enlightening hours working at the bookstore I went for a quick walk through the woods at my parents house. It's nice to get away...no sounds but nature, no other humans, no distractions.
It's such a wonderfully comforting feeling to walk in woods that you know...you're not sure how you know them...but after 26 years you can tell the dozens of acres apart. It's been a while since I've been back there...but it's like coming home again. I spent many an hour in those woods as a child... playing, running, exploring, drawing, documenting and laying in the brush staring up at the clouds though the many fingers of the trees. I now have to share my wood with the growing deer population. I prefer the deer population to the ocassional skunk from the late 80's. Walking in a wood that is not part of a park...making your own path...chosing your own tree to turn at...is quite relaxing. I sat on a down tree for a while and reflected. It's a great way to meditate and clear ones mind. It was a refreshing weekend.
Spending time in the woods reflecting had me yearning for Cosimo...(Calvino's Baron in the Trees). What an idea... rebel ...climb into the trees...and stay there for the rest of ones life...
I leave you with a quote from the book...as romantic of a notion it is to remain in the trees, could I really become such a hermit / introvert. I'd need association...I'd need the personal growth thats gained by interaction.
"He understood: that association renders men stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes on keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword)."
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Hey Patricia. It's Rob of b&n fame. I think that your blog site is really interesting. Its a great idea to pick something out each day and immortalize it in photo. I think that we get so caught up in the nonsense of everyday life and we keep our blinders on and get stuck in a routine. Its so hard to take a step back and gain some perspective on things and see the true beauty that the world has to offer. I try to do that as much as possible, but fall victim to the routine as much as anyone else. But I do love to just look up at the sky and at the trees and the birds and all that awesome stuff and just get blown away. It kind of gives everything a meaning when sometimes its hard to find that meaning in life. I don't know. But I'm glad I got to check out your site. I'll stop by again soon. Good luck on your interviews if I don't see ya before, and keep snapping those pretty pictures.
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