Reading & Walking

Back home today the first thing I did was sleep in. Actually I woke up early but was too tired to get out of bed. Staying up late and getting up early, along with my grandchildren and their dog, had worn me down. But it was in a pleasant way since as I resumed my ‘work’ today it was with much more vigor and peace. The ‘time out’ up north was hectic at times but refreshing. There seems to be a built-in slowness in country living even when you combine it with the busy lifestyle of today’s families. Listening powers are improved in the country or in nature. Also I was away from the media of TV, radio and newspaper the last few days. This helped the slowness of nature take over my body. Mass media is fast and nature is slow. Nature is like reading the book and allowing the imagination to work. Media is like watching the movie of the book, where not much is left to the imagination.

Tonight for dinner my son and I walked over to the Church to meet my wife, coming from work, to enjoy a Milwaukee Friday Night Fish Fry. Walking, even walking fast, is another exercise like reading that slows your body down and brings it more in accordance with nature. In the winter months, when the garden work is slow, reading and walking can give me the necessary exercises of slowing down and enjoying the moment, something I can find the rest of the year in the garden.

The wiki gnome Tegan, of Emergency Digital, wrote a comment below my Blue Moon posting last night. It seems like I’ve discovered a new and fifth meaning for the term ‘Blue Moon.’ It must have been the reading I did up north, along with walking the dog, that allowed me, via the digital camera, to discover a new ‘blue moon.’

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