THE KINGDOM OF CRICKETS

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined." 

--H. D. Thoreau

There are many things we experience which are intangible to touch and to feel if one does not pass through them for themselves and with absolute reality.  These are things which change something within and you cannot share “this” change.  It is yours alone.  But since sharing is what we live for, and what we are best designed for, you can share somewhat of what they are... 

For example, I went out into the Kingdom of Crickets throughout this past week running in Maryland!  I had the delight of a grand symphony, and was daily greeted by the Little Masters of their music rolling through the stillness of the pre-dawn air with penetrating consistency!  They were the Masters there.  I then saw & experienced another intangible as for properly “sharing” with words alone.  The soft, rhythmic pulsing of fireflies had been happening without my notice.  Their beauty is there for a moment… placed drifting in their travels… spontaneous and direct they shout silent life.  When I say that the soft, blowing breeze was nice it does not speak of its full force… of how it drifts in unseen and wraps around you in 85% humidity, then lifts you up and restores your soul!   

These are intangible things one must go out to meet and tastes them not within closed walls. To enjoy one must make an effort in finding the place where bravery leads.  There, in quietness & solitude, discoveries are made daily. 

The beauty of the soft, plodding rhythm of a distance runners foot plants.  There you understand why tribal and indigenous people of the world have times where for hours they play drums… full of energy, softly, rhythmic, strong.  Rolling, rolling, rolling… they call the soul.  How many would really come to know that out there foot plants moving forward… dancing gently… are the expression and joy of their beating heart?   Out there in the Kingdom of Crickets sifting after the intangibles.  Now Go!