My Favourite Retreat

[Dan Goodwin]

Where do you go to get away from the stresses of daily life? Where do you escape to, to gather your breath and feel calm, to be renewed?

Maybe it's a place within your home, maybe a place in your mind, maybe somewhere out in the middle of nature?

Share your favourite retreats here with us...

[donna]

I escape to the farm. My dad has a place i love to go to. It is beautiful this time of yr. I love to just sit on the lake's edge, skip rocks and take in all that is natural and pure. It energizes me to breath in the clean air, listen to nothing but natures sweet sounds, watch the incredible clouds form mythical creatures and some comical ones; watch the critters move about like I am not even there, and best of all- nothing but nature, just pure nature. There I find my "center" again, that place that escapes, maybe even runs away when life gets too hectic. It is that place where inner peace, creative notions, and the stabilizer in me resides. I even like to go when there is a quiet rain shower. On those days I need a total cleanse, I drop the umbrella and play in the rain like i was a little kid again. What is it about the rain on a warm day with the big rain drops that make it so enticing? The farm is eye candy to me. The colors are endless, the place is one huge collage - HE is the master artist you know. But just taking in how it all works together. have you ever noticed that even a junk yard has an element of design and art to it? Well, the farm with the mirror lake, rainbow of leaves this time of yr. and the never ending resource of design and symmetry is endless. It all seems to work and balance no matter how it is thrown together. I just need time to fill up on the magnificent farm museum of natural art, my solace from the world.

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

"the magnificent farm museum of natural art"

Nice way of putting it, Donna!

Yes, it can be much too easy for me to get caught up in daily routine, daily stuff and forget about all the opportunities close at hand for getting inspiration and renewal from the natural world. I am terrible about saying I'm going to do it, and then forgetting to. Now that spring is here with summer close behind, I intend to start walking my talk!