Listening Meditation

Standing in Sumter National Forest (South Carolina), I decided to record what I was hearing. I realized after I played this back, that I was listening, but not really hearing.

I didn’t realize the wind was talking so much.

And I didn’t hear the owl until later. She is about 1 minute into the video.

It’s like some of the voices of nature just rolled right over me. But capturing this in a way I could listen to more closely, was like seeing characters in a still-shot that I didn’t realize were standing there all along.