I’m being a bit of a lazy blogger. I’m simply referring to other folks blogs. But that’s the fun of the web, reading bits and pieces that inspire and expand my thinking. Or it articulates a feeling or experience in a way I have not done.
http://keriwyattkent.com/soul/?p=848
This entry is about quietness. There has been a lack of quietness in my life since summer began. More accurately, there’s been lack of stillness. One question is what do you do with quietness? Today I wonder what I would do with stillness? I tend to plan and execute more movement. Wayne describes it with a term his Mom uses “running the roads”. I have been running the roads. Literally. The Mountain Loop Highway. Stevens Canyon. Paradise. Ohanapecosh. These are music to my ears. They are my home for my summer. My father and mother rode these roads with me in my childhood and gave the siren call to go out, to explore, to experience.
Kids and camping make stillness difficult. There are always things to do. The trend in parenting seems to be constant response. The introvert in me gets tires of that. Camping requires work. Put up tent before the rain. Find the bug spray. We’re hungry. Not so different from home. Except you have to build everything.
So I find this blog challenging. What will I do with stillness? Will I give it to God?