Nature Heals

Everyone needs a place to retreat; a spot where the world grows silent enough for the soul to speak. - Angie Weiland-Crosby

Yutori is a Japanese concept of a conscious decision to create space and time in life to slow down, relax, reflect, and enjoy life. Thoreau went to the woods, I travel to my homeland in Nova Scotia - equidistant east or west of HK.  After a long drive one arrives at a small cabin brimming with decades of eclectic family memories only steps away from a serene lake yet minutes to the ocean.  

I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.- John Burroughs 
Each night as the embers fade I strain my ears to hear ANY noise. The silence is only pierced by the ethereal haunting call of loons.  Theirs is the quintessential sound of the Canadian wilderness.  (listen here). We all have memories triggered by specific scents or sounds. For me, the calls of these amazing birds defines time spent beside, in and on the lake.  Their calls travel further on a still lake at night and sometimes you can even hear a response from a neighbouring lake.  Simple pleasures surrounded by nature serves to restore on all levels.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. Rachel Carson