Episode Summary
Where do you go to be filled with light and to shine?
Episode Notes
Hello to you listening in Istanbul, Turkey!
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. The splendid green leaves of summer are slowly giving way to the more subtle golds and russets of fall. At higher elevations, you might find vibrant reds and purples. No matter the season or the reason I find myself most at home among the trees. Perhaps they beckon to you as well to come, stay awhile.
This from Mary Oliver:
“When I am among the trees,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“You too have come into the world to do this,
to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”
[Mary Oliver, poet]
Question: Where do you go to be filled with light and to shine?
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Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team
- Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts
- Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music
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If I expected to live for 400 or 4000 years, I probably would follow the advice of the trees and move very slowly.
To a fly, a human life is as long as all of recorded history is to us – 150-200 generations or so.
Little wonder if the trees think we are buzzing around all to randomly. With the wisdom of the ages, perhaps they are on to something?
Your lovely comment, Charlotte, reminds me of a game I used to play with my sister when we saw an ant & wondered about the distance it had traveled in comparison to human distances: was it like a walk around the block or around the world?
The older I become the more attuned I am to moving more slowly – not because I am slowing down as I age but to slow the passage of time. When I first met Thich Nhat Hanh & is teachings about mindful walking I thought he was full of baloney. Many retreats at Der Park Monastery showed me he knew what he was teaching.
I’m guessing you are quite right: trees must imagine us humans to be awfully dizzying creatures.
I have a copy of Petr Wohlleben’s book, The Illustrated Edition of The Hidden Life of Trees. Gazing at one page is enough to slow – me – down.
Thank you for taking the time to share your insights with me / us.
Hello Diane – ‘Empathetic resonance’. Walking close to Winchester there are rivers, hills, woodland blessed with do many beautiful trees.
For inspiration I walk together with the trees. For peace, I pause and become embraced by their majesty.
Leaves from Spring and then to Fall. Rebirth in Spring and Fall; preparing to slumber over Winter. Tree roots communicate. Trees stand but not alone. I just love trees; sunlight glistening through their leaves and in Fall, glorious tints of myriad colors.
Trees and a panacea.
Beauty, peace and elegance and branches held out for people to hold in friendship.
I like this very much, Simon: empathetic resonance.
Like you I am drawn to the trees – for so many life giving reasons. And I find many opportunities to stand close, hold the bark against my face, thank them for all they bring to the world & offer my condolences when folks see nothing but reams of paper or rolls of TP or the opportunity to create grazing land. We have what we have while we have it – let’s you & I continue to glorify it.