Mountains and silence

    I am watching True Grit with Pinky tonight. As is usual I am taken more by the scenery than the movie. (I have seen it a few times before) There are no words to describe how much longing I feel for those wide open spaces and the mountains in the back round. I don't know what it is. Genetics, upbringing, past lives what have you. All I know is the open spaces, the vast, fierce mountains. There is this huge silence there. Sometimes I think our lives are filled with too much noise. We have tvs, cars, people nearby, we take our ipods when we go out to nature so we don't have to listen to the silence in our hearts. Being alone with ourselves, our thoughts, the touch of nature terrifies us so we cover it with sounds. Any kind of sound so we don't have to confront the stillness of our souls. I am just as guilty of this as others. I need to spend more time in the silences. And the mountains. Most definitely the mountains.