MOMENTS OF AWE

I read an article on Flipboard recently about how “Moments of Awe" can significantly improve your health, so I thought I'd share just a few of the moments of Awe in my life.       

- Drifting on our lake in my canoe as the early morning mist swirls in little tornados drawn up to the sun.

- Squinting my eyes to see sunlight reflect off the water and sparkle like a thousand little diamonds.

       

- Sitting by the Chesapeake Bay on an early morning when the water is as still as a small salt pond and fog muffles the sounds of the world.

- Eating breakfast on the back porch surrounded by giant loblolly pines with their majestic trunks and crowns of soft green needles against the deep blue sky.

- Looking out my window and watching a bald eagle soar over the trees, swooping down along the green fairway of the golf course.

- Spotting a mocking bird perched high on the peak of a roof mimicking robins, cardinals, blue jays and even an owl in it’s joyous evening song.

- Seeing the sun rise out of the ocean - so vivid you can almost see the flames around the orange fireball - and realizing there is a force more powerful than man.

- Sensing the energy of an ocean wave as it crests and crashes on the beach - washing over the sand then turning back on itself as it rushes back to the sea.

-  Standing on the bow of a classic sailboat feeling the swells of the ocean as we rise and fall in rhythm with nature. 

- Watching the sky turn from blue to a hundred shades of pink, red, orange and purple as the sun sets over the water.