SOUNDS

 

Autumn has come to the mountains…it’s easy to perceive 

when we feel the cooler weather upon our skin

when we hear the crunching of the leaves.

There is something comforting walking along the ground

where fallen leaves have randomly decided to bunch….

you find yourself smiling because…there’s something satisfying in the crunch

As I listened to that crunch of Mother Nature’s quilt…

with it’s colors on full display

I started wondering what other sounds in nature…make me feel this way

The music nature creates each day…her melodies…without words

The wind, 

a gentle rain, 

the ocean waves

a waterfall…

the singing of the birds.

Sounds that when I stop and listen …even if only for a little while…. 

immediately soothes my soul…and evokes from me… a smile.

As I was thinking of the plop a stone makes

before it sends out ripples on a lake.  

I began to wonder if there are soothing sounds

we human beings make

Do we make sounds like nature…

that soothe the soul…of course we do…

the laughter of a baby

when we whisper… ‘I Love You’.

How lucky we are as humans…

for the wide variety of sounds we’re blessed to hear

from the crunching of the leaves in Autumn

to all the ‘I Love Yous’ whispered in our ears.

Perhaps what we need a little more of in this world

is to find a way to interweave….

more ‘I Love Yous’ whispered in each other’s ears

with more time crunching in the leaves.