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Nature Cleansing

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I sit there in isolation, lost in my cozy little world of nature.  Turning myself into a human sponge, I begin absorbing the sights, sounds, and smells around me.  I allow them to seep into my bones, into the skeletons in all the little hidden closets of my mind.  Nature does its spring cleaning in the dusty house that is my soul.  The burbling of water cascading over rocks is like a lullaby to my over-worked mind, replacing racing thoughts and oughts and musts and should-be-doings with ahhhh! and other deep sighs of tranquility.  The breeze whispers its touch against my cheek, stealing the spotlight of awareness for a moment, caressing my heart like a lover’s touch.  Ahhhh!  I feel my anxiety, my tension, my worries release their hold and float away with the water.  Nearby a woodpecker starts up his racket, but still it soothes me somehow, despite its turbulence.  I imagine my troubles being pounded into the bark with each thrust of the beak, like nuts stashed away by the Acorn Woodpecker, this bird’s cousin.  Finally, my muscles are coming unknotted.  I breathe deep of the woodsy air and give the chickadee songs around me my full attention.  
[From a Kindle book I am working on, writing prompts with examples.  This is my example for the prompt: "a quiet brook".]
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Konaneko's avatar
I seriously wish to write like you someday ;-; The details and very high descriptions are absolutely inspiring!