I am sitting in the Denver airport reflecting on these last three weeks where there was limited WiFi and no phone service. It has been a dream! I am feeling the intensity of the movement and people that are now surrounding me with all the buzz of travel to all parts of the world. Taking it all in and allowing for the vast difference between what I have just come from and what is in front of me.

I love and welcome it all!  For the next few weeks I will be posting my musing/writings that were born out of the silence in the mountains. 

The more silence I hear ~ The Quieter I become!

No distractions
No sounds to get in the way of my own thinking
No other noises except the beating of my own heart

I actually feel some discomfort when I have to go food shopping while in Colorado because it means driving 35-40 miles to the nearest town.

So you see it is not like running down to the corner market. However, the drive through the canyons on Highway 50 are worth the hour drive to do my grocery shopping. It is a meditation of sorts. A drive into another place and time. A drive that I have done hundreds of times and will remain in awe of the magic of these canyons along the Arkansas River.

On one excursion I saw big horn sheep looking as if they were flying up the side of the canyon. It happened so fast that my brain could not immediately process that they were not flying. It was seconds until I understood that this is how they jump and leap up the steep cliffs and canyons. I have often seen them but in that moment it was different. Or was it in that moment I was different? Calmer, clearer, quieter! The longer I stay in Colorado the more grounded and internal I become.

Someone that I have briefly known throughout my years here in Colorado said to me, you don’t seem like you are from NY. You seem to toggle between that life and here really well. And he is right! I do toggle really well here.

How is this possible?

This is the question I have been asking myself as I continually dive deeper and deeper into this solitude. How is this possible? I want to find some excuse or reason why I like this so much, as if there is something wrong with loving being so quiet and introspective.

I know I love being able to hear myself.
I love being able to sit for hours without any other sounds infiltrating my thoughts and musings

I encourage each of you to find a spot and allow for the silence to move through the core of your own being.
Watch what thoughts want to rise.
Watch what you might want to do to get away from yourself.
Watch what type of distractions you might use to make yourself busy

In our culture~Solitude is not a simple thing……
But it is OH SO juicy and rich with information!
Can you Hear it?