"A Quiet Light"  copyright 2011, Caris Cerdwyn, All rights reserved.

Isn't nature amazing?  Her endless creativity, the beauty she grows for us, the peace she brings us, all take my breath away most days.  Seemingly ordinary things like trees, have such a sacred presence.  For me, some days it's just enough to sit beneath a tree and breath in the fresh air that the tree helps to make.  What an intricate, interdependent system nature is!  Yes, I'm a tree hugger.  We have lost our old growth forests here in the east, but visiting those places in the west is a gift I hope and pray we give to the children and their children,  and their children...  We have been given the greatest of gifts in the world around us, and it is in our best interest to protect it from ourselves.  We like to put the blame on the big corporations, yadayada, but the truth of the matter is that most people are invested in those big companies.  We support corporate America in ways we are often unaware of.  The care of the earth and it's future depend upon us...each of us, the choices, small and large we make each day will have lasting effects.

Go out and love it today.  Gaze at some beauty.  Breathe some fresh air.  Take a walk and listen to the trees.