Adolescent Meditations

The art of sitting in the woods.

This part of an on-going series called A God Thing, reflections from a small patch of prairie north of Columbia, Missouri.

When I was in junior high I started to take walks into the woods. Living in the country but not on a farm meant you had little to do at times and no one to commune with. I was the only child in our family, so the monotony of my day c…