After a few nights of relentless wind, a calm washes over the mountains. The birds, still in the wind, once again sing their hearts out. The flag and flag pole are restored to their place along the porch pillars. There is a glorious quiet.
Ever since I was a child, I have been drawn to remote places. Not in the bush country of Alaska, fifty miles or so from town, but close enough to a town where I can meet friends, pick up a few things I need and be grateful I have a retreat away from all of this. Fifteen minutes in the Nantahala National Forest, depending upon where you are is more than enough. Tucked away in the mountainside where white pine, dogwood, beech, flame azaleas and sourwood to name but a few provide a canopy. A haven.
I've have a few pensive days recently. Cooking scones, making salads, eating berries. The other night I watched an awesome conversation between the Dalai Lama and some academics.
It is a film a little under two and a half hours entitled, "Consciousness Is Everywhere...Panpsychism, the idea of universal consciousness, is a prominent thought in some branches of ancient Greek philosophy, paganism, and Buddhism. And it has been largely dismissed by modern science — until recently."
http://www.lionsroar.com/christof-koch-unites-buddhist-neuroscience-universal-nature-mind/
As Bob Dylan reminds us, "the answer is blowin in the wind."
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