Recharging the Soul

I once read, a long time ago, in some obscure magazine, that walking by the shore line was healthy for you. Apparently where the water laps at the shore, can be found a fine nebulous mist of magnetically charged water vapour that recharges the body at a molecular level.

I go for walks along the shoreline almost daily, tho in the winter time one has to wonder how much water vapour can actually form, what with the calm inky blackness of the river and the frozen white expanse of the lake, but the calm, peaceful, solitude is enough to soothe anyone.

Walking along listening to the zsinging of the sugar snow as I swish my boots thro it. Watching Quick and Quark, the resident ravens, swoop and swerve as they divebomb Charly, the wind whistling thro their wings. I'll often sit, close my eyes and listen to the world... which is far from silent. I hear a soft knockeling as the wind plays it's music thro knuckle bone branches, the faint crackling of a leaf still caught in a tree, the sharp zipper crack of the ice as it relives it's stresses, the gentle smackeling of the water lapping underneath the ice, a far off squirrel chittering it's objection to some kind of intrusion. I even hear the soft ticking of the snow as it lands gently onto my shoulders... now that is enough to recharge anyones soul!