Oh, I heard it though. It sounded like a tribe of banshees outside my backdoor. The radio station announcers chimed in high-wind warnings between news stories. I should have known better, but I decided to go for walk regardless. It was sunny. Clear blue skies. It’s just a little wind. Moving air. What did I have to lose? Ummm. Potentially my corneas.
I stepped out of the car and felt as though I had entered an invisible mosh pit. Seriously? I wanted to push back, but there was nothing to push. Plus, you kind of have to be a jerk to push a squirrel or a tree.
“Ok, I can handle this,” I thought. “Just 15 minutes. Some fresh air. Lean into it.” About seven minutes into this adventure a gust of wind hit me across the face knocking my glasses sideways, causing my eyes to dry, automatically closing, and watering like a sprinkler system. The wind was so strong I could not re-open my eyes. In my stumbling, teary, blindness a dog appeared from no where, unexpectedly goosed me, and then started growling and barking like I was a raw steak. What was happening?! Was I being attacked? I couldn’t see anything and was spinning around in blind circles trying to get away from Fido. I’m sure this was very comical from the outside (and in retrospect), but at that moment I was slightly terrified and also baffled that something invisible had started this whole chain of events.
Like the wind this morning; sometimes the most intangible forces are the strongest ones. We don’t see them but we know what they feel like; love, trust, fear, anger, connection, sunshine, wind. I’m not suggesting you go for a walk on a high-wind warning day, but Nature’s got some great experiences that you’ll never see coming, and I can bet you they’ll be some of the most amazing memories of your life.
That Nature. She can be quite the prankster sometimes.
