My daughter called me out on the front steps this morning for a moment of being still and picking daisies with our ears. It sounded as though we were in the wilds of Alaska. Very faintly, then growing into a perfect crescendo were neighbourhood dogs about two blocks to the north, gathering their voices in one concerted, continuous howl, like a wolfpack. It was marvelous!

She hasn't been living up here but for the past two months and hadn't heard it before. She thought someone had a pack of sled dogs or something. After we listened for a few minutes, delighting in the chaotic, yet ordered-sounding chorus, I told her we'd probably hear a siren in a minute because that's generaly what it means. They always hear them before we do and sure enough, we could barely hear one a couple of minutes later.

Joerg, I undersand what you mean, I think, that we BE all the while we are DOING, then we would always BE and not have to stop to do some noticing or whatever. I would call it being in the flow of the Cosmic, to always be at one with the Creator, thus noticing the beauty in all things while doing whatever we need to do or have chosen to do at any given moment. Thus it would be unnecessary, redundant even, to say "stop and listen or look or whatever" because we would naturally be aware already, at all times.

kat