Never alone... (cont)

content: Apr 8, 2017 · podcast: Oct 10, 2020

Never alone...

I come home from work and nobody's here. I open the windows and hear the birds chirping. We're never alone, peeps. ❤️

I was thinking about this more this morning, thinking of how limited I am when I live only in my own head, confine myself to only what I see in front of me.

When I'm home alone I'm regularly reminded of my aloneness. The sounds of my feet on the whitewashed plywood bounce around the walls. Just the same as my thoughts bounce around in my own head. Existing at best in an echo chamber. Inside and out.
Life is so much bigger than my dining room, than the four walls of my house. When I open the windows and expose my ears to something more...I remember that. I hear the wind in the trees with their leaves gently clapping. The birds singing to each other and that little puppy dog yapping next door. I hear the cars motoring to and fro and the neighbors living their lives just a ston