Hiking (the world is your adventure)

Well, here we are again - Labor Day weekend and the perfect off days. As we often do, we took a family outing. This time it was hiking - one of my favorites (as long as there are no scary animal encounters). I was reminded of two things while we hiked the forest. The first was from this book I recently read (the book itself was pretty strange but I got some good pointers from it) - it was saying how each person has their own song in this world and sometimes we find it and sing it and other times we never find it. It is an interesting idea - that we can be in "tune" with ourselves and understand who we are and our place in this world. When you go hiking and see the world from such a quiet perspective, just you and the trees and mountains or hills or whatever else you see in nature - away from cars, streets, lots of people, computers and phones and everything else that distracts us in the world - you can really understand what the song of the universe really means. You are more attuned to yourself and have more time to think when you are in a forest. The other was the Pocahontas song about how we really don't listen to the world around us. It is very true - we live in a noisy world and quiet is an important thing. If we look closely we may really be able to see the colors of the wind.