My most beautiful experiences

My first real canter on a horse. Decades ago. I was a slip of a girl on a huge 17 hand horse on a dirt road in the mountains on a summer's day after the rain stopped. The horse and I were in tune, it felt like fun slow flying, and I wasn't frightened at all.

A peak moment. The road somehow seemed infinite. Utter and simple joy.

[StrandedSnowMonkey]

I tried to out-run the clouds yesterday on my bike, and got soaked. When I reached the park, I spent some time meditating under a pine tree on the hill, which offered a little shelter. It was really nice just to sit for a while, with the sound of the rain.

[Emmalevine]

Such beautiful experiences...thank you for sharing!

A sense of wonder and mystery.

Since I started a thread on joy, thought I'd share a couple of aesthetic- beautiful experiences. that I'll never forget.

At 13-14 I was riding my motorscooter in the Phoenix desert. And we had one of those astonishing Ariz sunsets, dusk.
The entire sky was truly golden-pink, as were the clouds. The clear sky itself was pink, rather than blue.
It felt like a Disney film, Wizard of Oz...I felt like Alice viewing a surreal heavenly terrain.

Another was an island my Ex & I encountered , also near sunset when her Dad dropped us off there in his boat.
Waist high fields of grass rippling in the wind. We just looked at one another in disbelief, as it seemed a tropical paradise (in Minnesota) He returned & we needed to leave. We never could again locate that place.


And once driving back from Duluth MN,
I passed a forest of bare trees, devoid of foliage that looked like they were made of glistening silver,
Rain had frozen on them , and the setting sun made it look like an extraterrestrial landscape with glass or silver trees.

Pure freedom.

A sense of appreciation for what I have.

I had one today, hav not been in the garden for ages and i spent hours just pottering, watching what was going on and feeling truly at peace, it was amazing :)

Sitting on a cliff starring at the Moon in the ocean while playing Fiddler on the Green singing and dancing as the night sky spark with stars almost as a spotlight beaming at me as the music stops everything I see turns out to be just a dream. :)

[Tobi]

Running with my dog in the orchard at dawn last March. Dew on the grass, sunlight beginning burn the mist from the ground.

My "dead" dog showing me she survived "death". Her love from the next world every now and again. Thank you sweet Creature. You brought me back to mySelf.