Monday, February 7, 2011

The sounds of Nature

I messed around on this website for far too long today. Unfortunately listening to nature is the only a fraction of the experience. Unfortunately listening to it while staring at a computer screen sort of defeats the entire purpose. I love the snow, but the cold makes me claustrophobic; stuck indoors. I cannot wait to get out hunting this spring, to feel the bark against my back, to smell the green of the crushed grass beneath me. I need to feel the cool breeze on my face, and most of all, I need to hear the barred owl and the turkeys gobble with a hope, an anticipation to see them as well.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1C9quZ/naturesoundsfor.me/Rainy_evening_1

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Nature Journal


  • On a busy day when life overwhelms me with its many demands, I think of one place I’d like to be. Where is your place? Is it on that cruise under the scorching heat with a margarita in hand? Is it in your comfortable bed with no distraction? Mine is a memory of nirvana. I’ve only truly experienced this bliss once before. When I was twelve I remember being done hunting and being really tired. While my dad explored the woods I laid on the forest floor, relaxed with no burden of others expectations; my then blonde hair splayed around me, and the gentle rays of sun warming my closed eye lids. It was wonderful, that dream land, that better than sleep. When I get really overwhelmed with how my life is going, so fast, in so many directions; I close my eyes, imagine that heat, and go back in time to when I was young, carefree, free.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Nature Journal

I feel so isolated from nature. I'm indoors most of the day sitting under a fluorescent light, eating Taco bell. I feel shaky. I am uptight. All this concrete has gotten to me. If it weren't for the smell of leaves, well, I guess I wouldn't have had a topic for paper number one. The environment has been rooted in my life, in my happiness. How is it that human beings can live so apart from nature? Why is human nature something different altogether? I take pride in the fact that I am still an animal. I have crazy desires: I get ravenous, I get competitive as all hell, I am a predator. I also realize the crazy things I do to fit into this messed up daily life of the human. For gods sake I have fake hair.