It snowed the other day. It felt like the final gut punch from mother nature before she lifts me back up just in time for spring. Don’t get me wrong, I like winter, but it can beat a person down. I like the snow and the calmness that comes after a storm. The quiet plays with my mind. I’m I going deaf? Why can’t I hear anything? Then I hear the branch of a tree creaking in the soft wind. I realize my hearing is perfectly fine. Mother nature was just giving me a little nudge. Her way of letting me know everything is OK.

When the world starts ripping my my face off, I need to reset. So I walk. Sometimes I have a destination. Other times I don’t. The change of scenery heightens my senses. It clears the pathways in my brain and allows me to focus on the small things that are in front of me. A lone leaf laying on the fresh snow. The tracks of a rabbit across the deck. Fresh footprints on the sidewalk. I begin to focus on the things I normally would ignore because there is too much noise in my head.

It’s too easy to sit in front of a computer and go numb by the repeated bombardment of the lives and opinions of others. It’s too easy to sit in front of a computer, unable to focus because the noise in your head is so deafening that you contemplate putting on a helmet to contain the brain splatter should said head explode. It’s too easy to sit in front of a computer and have your opinions of the world shaped by the experiences of others rather than your own experiences.

Peel your face off your screen and take a walk with me.

Take A Walk With Me