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 A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” John Lubbock Of the natural features, what is your favorite type? Oceans, mountains, etc. ------------ It is difficult to choose, really. I like all nature even the wildest of its animals. They, as everything else in nature, are all my favorites, in essence. Maybe, this is why I never liked to swim in a manmade pool, but in the ocean. As the quote says, earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains, and the sea are all very beautiful and with their own personalities. Maybe this is because they are teachers older than ink and paper, older than my voice or anyone else's that ever set words to a page. So, I've come to the conclusion that knowledge is not just a matter of words, but of watching, waiting, feeling, of letting the world write itself upon my senses. Thus, patience, I've learned from the earth, as roots burrow into it and blossoms and flowers wait their turn. Hopefully I've also learned humility from both the earth and the sky. They both remind me how small I am. Earth to embrace me after my body ceases to breathe and the sky to show me I am less than a dot beneath it. Those mountains and their shadows remind me of strength and their silence is louder than any sermon. Woods and forests whisper of mystery and stillness while the rivers teach motion, the art of moving forward and learning to change course when conditions change. They also do not ever forget any stone they once touched. I should be that lucky with this not-forgetting thing! My lessons of vastness, wonder, and how beauty and terror can dwell together come from the oceans and the sea. In these lessons, I am not just a student but I am kin of the entire living world. For knowledge is not just words, but it is also watching, waiting, feeling, of letting the world write itself into my senses. |
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