The Simple Life

(c) Tomo Yun www.yunphoto.net/en/

Why is it that as humans we so often yearn for a simpler life. A life that is lived close to nature. Dreaming of our having our own little corner of the world in which we may retreat echoes of a longing within. A longing which aches to feel the dusty earth run between our fingertips and the soft grass beneath our feet.

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The salty mist of a sea breeze,

the fragile branches of a young tree straining toward the sunlight, ancient, chislled rocks and mountainsides eroded by time, fields of golden grain saturated in sepia and sunlight. Over ripe and peachy drunk midsummer sunsets.

Meadow flowers dotted like blotted ink within sweeping grasses,

the sound of water.

*In Kabbalah, the words "God" and "Nature" are synonymous.

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Maybe when we yearn for a simpler way of life. We are only trying to find our way back home

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There is a road in the hearts of all of us, hidden and seldom traveled,which leads to an unkown, secret place.The old people came literally to love the soil,and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling ofbeing close to a mothering power.Their teepees were built upon the earthand their altars were made of earth.The soul was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.That is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead ofpropping himself up and away from its life giving forces.For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeplyand to feel more keenly. He can see more clearly into the mysteries oflife and come closer in kinship to other lives about him.

~ Chief Luther Standing Bear ~

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Humankind has not woven the web of life.We are but one thread within it.Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.All things are bound together.All things connect.

~ Chief Seattle, 1854 ~

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