Deep within me has always been a desire to find, to nurture and to create beauty. Even if it was escaping a city abode for a waist-high meadow and deep-banked brook across the street and letting the city noises and sights fall away to the retreats' melodic ramblings, it was soul-filling. There is a deep rest that comes to me in those spaces....where my breathing slows and I am present in the moment and quieted inside, communing with the Creator. It can happen in my garden, or in my overflowing-with-plants sun room. Release can happen on a hike, my feet taking on the steady...more
