City Boy has a point... I guess

There is an ongoing discussion between me & Mike St. James about what is better, the vibrant and energetic city or the peaceful and pastoral countryside. MSJ can't get enough of bright lights and big cities. He loves to be in the center of the action, a crowded club, or throng of people making their way down a city street.

Now for me, give me nature any day. I prefer tall trees to tall building and the gentle hum of nature to the noisy chaos of the city. I like to walk barefoot in the grass. I love Mother Nature and she loves me. Most of the time.

I have a favorite meditation & prayer spot right at the edge of the woods under a willow tree. It's a perfectly peaceful and shady place where I like to sit in the grass and be alone with my thoughts (or sans thoughts, as the case may be). As luck would have it, I'm not the only creature that likes that spot. Apparently a tick didn't want to share his piece of earth and bit me on the leg. And it would seem that I'm particularly sensitive to this type of tick because I now have a swollen, red patch on my leg that's larger than my hand.

So will I give up my favorite place in the shade? Not a chance. I will, however, be wearing a new pair of ankle length yoga pants the next time I do my Ohms.

Walt Whitman:
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,
Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of theworld a rural domestic life,
Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my
own ears only,
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!