Books like Being Peace

Being PeaceI keep Thich Naht Hanh's books in my book case but anymore I do not read them. I think of him often, ever since he had a stroke. He made it though, but I can't find out how he is. As far as I know he is still aliveand still a very wise but old man. Some days when I walk in the woods I try to breathe in peace and breathe it out again, but it has been so many years that now I think more about what people are going through in the world and the changes that are taking place in this earth, and I am too saddened to think of peace. Yesterday, when I walked through the woods the leaves were falling.For the first time that I could ever remember I actually heard them fall.They fell like paper rain on the forest floor.Maybe Mother Earth had heard it too.I just know though, that she weeps too much these daysand probably doesn't hear anything anymore.Maybe like me, she is only hearing her own pain.And I just wish that I could breathe in peace and breathe out peace again.written by Jessica Slade, 2017