Starting Again

During the last several months, there has been much political turmoil during our country's heated contemplation of possible directions we could all take, kicking and screaming or peaceful, together.  As a person who lives for relationships and love, witnessing and being a part of the hurt and offenses caused by insensitivity, labeling, unfair judgements --all of this-- imagined or real -- sometimes to me seems NOT worth it.  All of these people who mean so much to me, who I cannot visit regularly...they cannot see the smile on my face, feel the warmth of my embrace or hear the love in my voice...   During the first snow of the season, I took a nature walk with my husband and captured several moments of nature's beauty around me -with all my senses and some with a snapshot - and breathed in serenity, even while my husband and bantered and shared that time together.  I have found solace in wisdom from Walt Whitman, "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains?  Nature remains."  Inevitably, one undeniable fact always exists that none of us can argue amongst one another about or take offense by or walk away hurt about, we all belong to nature, we will return from whence we came.  Peace.