What activity has most consistently given you a feeling of inner peace?
Hanging with my prodigiously wonderful wife of 27 years. She is a peaceful person to be around. Yet we also have moments of delirious laughter together.
I'm always more relaxed after taking a walk around a local trail under the canopy of scented trees around the lagoon. In fact I think I'll do that right now.
Otherwise, bicycling along the path by the coast is relaxing, or swimming in the evenings, under the stars.
Use to be working a job...will find a replacement soon
Inner peace? What the hell is that? Still looking for it.
Every morning I go to work I travel over the new Young's Bay Bridge. This allows me to traverse two miles over Young's Bay, two miles of water and most days more bird species than one would think possible. Once the other side of the bay is reached some days one will have the privilege of finding Roosevelt Elk waiting in a nearby field. Last time I counted at least sixty in the herd. On a good day, I see the same returning home.
I don't think I've ever felt it, or if I have, the memory of it has faded. I'm not sure what would bring it about now.
Walking beside the rolling river behind my house. Seeing what the latest high river has deposited on the shores. Things change out here moment by moment. Trees... The huge boulders sticking out from the cliffs, the wildlife... It's magical almost.
There is also a place... Ruins from a Ferry business about a mile or so down river. The guys wife (presumably) planted daffodils there hundreds of years ago. They have since grown wild and take up acres and acres of land. Every April a lot of the neighbors make the trek to see if they have all bloomed yet. It is nothing short of amazing!