Intentional Happiness: Nature Edition
by Kym on July 22, 2010
Have you seen what beauty there is to be seen?
In windswept meadows with crunchy brown grasses and scraggled wild flowers?
In the fixated attention of a child, slowly unpeeling the world with her eyes and discovering the wonder in it?
In racing the wind and never caring whether you win or not?
In immersing yourself in the greenness of the green and blueness of the blue and knowing, just somehow knowing, that this sort of beauty isn’t accidental?
And in realizing that you can fill yourself to overflowing with such beauties and let them wash the ugliness far, far away. That there is a cure for the empty, hollow place inside you that you keep filling with the wrong things. You’ve been looking for the right thing, the right thought, the right food, the right experience, when all along it’s been all around you. Beauty. Just waiting to fill you up.
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28 comments
Kim, are you me? Because lately you sound just like me. Or at least you are addressing the very issues I am having, except you are sort of resolving them or giving exceptional insight.
I think you are wonderful.
by LisAway on July 22, 2010 at 9:23 am. #
And sorry I didn’t mention how lovely and poetic this post is (again) and how awesome the pictures are (again). They are.
by LisAway on July 22, 2010 at 9:24 am. #
What a beautifully worded post with equally beautiful pictures! I especially love the first photo. Very, very engaging.
Love,
Kenzie
by Anonymous on July 22, 2010 at 9:59 am. #
Well said and pictured!
Love you! And you might need to frame that first picture and put it on your wall. :)
by Eowyn on July 22, 2010 at 10:03 am. #
Eloquent.
Simple.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
–Off to fill up on some beauty, and not be derailed by filling up on any other self-defeating distractions!
by charrette on July 22, 2010 at 10:28 am. #
so so fabulous.
photos and words,
and that I can picture you walking with your camera and filling up with beauty.
thank you for letting it spill over a bit here.
by deb@talk at the table on July 22, 2010 at 10:37 am. #
Beauty, just waiting to fill you up.
Yes! I crave a quiet day in the woods. The sounds and sights of my children running and playing without whining and fighting. The feel of the breeze pushing through the leaves and reaching my skin. Ahhh. Sigh. Glorious.
I love your !!! today and I really, really needed it.
by Sarah on July 22, 2010 at 4:35 pm. #
There is so much beauty in your words. Lines like this, “In immersing yourself in the greenness of the green and blueness of the blue and knowing, just somehow knowing, that this sort of beauty isn’t accidental?” are just overflowing in it.
And that first photograph…I could almost feel the wind blowing. Beautiful.
by CK on July 22, 2010 at 5:31 pm. #
This is awesome. I love nature, that’s why I walk everywhere. There is something wonderful about letting beauty overwhelm the senses.
by Amber on July 22, 2010 at 7:05 pm. #
That first photograph is breathtaking. Once a year here in Utah we get these wild sunflowers that grow all over the place and there are fields of them. I always have to grab my camera and go shooting. Thank heavens for the beauty of the earth!
by Petra on July 22, 2010 at 8:07 pm. #
Very sweet thoughts. It is so easy to get stuck in the iside of life when there is so much outside. XO
by Kazzy on July 23, 2010 at 7:05 am. #
Lovely, Kim. I need to go to the woods again.
by Krista on July 23, 2010 at 8:33 am. #
Simply gorgeous – words, pictures, everything. That first one is art! I want a copy!
by Jane on July 23, 2010 at 5:09 pm. #
I rediscovered today how much happiness can come through being in nature. I hate how easily I forget that!
by Annette on July 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm. #
Beauty. I don’t think I have a problem with seeing beauty, my problem is finding the inner calm to fully appreciate it before running off to the next thought in my head.
by Marilyn on July 24, 2010 at 9:28 pm. #
Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
by Tristi Pinkston on July 25, 2010 at 2:40 am. #
I love this. TRUTH. Again. That’s what I find here.
by Heather of the EO on July 25, 2010 at 6:32 pm. #
“You’ve been looking for the right thing, the right thought, the right food, the right experience, when all along it’s been all around you. Beauty. Just waiting to fill you up.”
Yes. Over and over again. Yes.
by kelly on July 31, 2010 at 1:24 pm. #
Nature is my happy, especially when it involves a body of water.
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