After the rain

topic posted Sun, December 14, 2003 - 9:53 PM by  Loren
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Last night we had a rainstorm here. This morning was
a beautiful day. The gray clouds had all gone away,
and it was sunny. I went for a walk in my neighborhood,
and it is amazing how the rain had changed everything.
Walking on grass surfaces was like walking on a
naturally lush green carpet--the ground was like a
sponge, and absorbed each step I took. Fallen leaves
were wet, and packed on the soil. The leaves cushioned
each step. Then the gravel begged to say,
"Good morning!", nudging my soles to yawn and
to come alive. And all of this without a single word or
sound uttered. Indeed--being BF makes me one with
nature, and more aware of my connection with it.
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Loren
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    Re: After the rain

    Sun, December 14, 2003 - 9:59 PM
    you are so poetic about feet anyd nature...being bare foot lets you always stay in touch with mother earth...you can feel her pluse and remamber she is very alive..
  • Re: After the rain

    Sun, December 21, 2003 - 6:04 PM
    Every weekend recently it rains here! :-) Last night
    between cloudbursts, I went walking in my mobile home
    park. The streets are paved asphalt, and the surfaces
    are rough with cracks every here and there. The wet
    asphalt was very comfortable to the soles of my feet.
    I told my wife that it "tasted like peppermint" to my
    feet, mixing metaphors. Being BF conveys tactile rather
    taste-bud sensations. But the wet asphalt felt cool,
    moist, and refreshing--the tactile equivalent of the
    taste of peppermint if my feet could only taste!
  • Re: After the rain

    Fri, December 26, 2003 - 3:18 PM
    The skies were gray and it was raining steadily here
    on Christmas morning. I decided to walk to the nearest
    newspaper vending machine to get my usual morning
    reading matter. My hair didn't want to get wet, so I
    brought along and used an umbrella. My feet did want
    to get wet, so bare they remained. As I passed each
    puddle in the asphalt, I walked through each one to
    wish it a "Merry Christmas!"

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