Brien Carr - Sunset

One night this semeseter I was offered to run on the trail at night. I thought this experience would provide more time for experiencing the trail in a different light. As I meandered through the disorienting turns, ducking to avoid untrimmed branches, I listened more intently on the sounds of the trail. I understood nothing, but it was a good nothing. I was finally listening to nature. This was something which I had neglected in recent times. Even though I might not have been able to understand what nature said, I heard the nothing. The nothing seemed to be progress in reviving the lost connection between my nature and my wild nature. I really wished that the experience I had as a child would be able to be completly revived through my experiencing nature this semester. In some ways it has. I am now able to see the connection between my childhood experiences of nature and wilderness in a more clear developed understanding. I now know why and how I felt the way I did about nature from the education I had as a child and as a student. My run on the trail opened my eyes to the physical similarities that I could recall from my childhood. I have established a new goal to experience nature in a way that will reestablish the connection of my memories.