What feeds your soul (other than religion)

[Stella8686]

Feeling like this lockdown has me enjoying little things more and making me realise what I miss. I don't often hear people talk about their soul in a non-religious way.

For me it's

Van Morrison songs
Laura Marling songs
Bluebell woods
The Lake District
The smell of the sea and grass
The view of where I live

I know this is just a list of things I like but it feels like a deeper connection to these things like a living memory tethering me to who I am.

Interested to hear other people's
Light hearted thread

A lot of my favourite books are like memories of where I was and what was happening in my life when I read them. Like when I psychic in a tv show touches an object and has a vision.

I feel soul is missing from modern culture.

Being near water with the dog. Ideally the sea but our river is keeping me ticking.

I am the person I should be near water.

Being near water
Lakes, rivers or sea

Nothing comes close for me

Reading
Standing in the sea
Mountains

It literally feels like a breath of life for me with these things.

The phrase food for the soul
And good for the soul

Need used more especially now

And laughing with my children

Being in the woods/forest or near the sea, makes me calm and feel peaceful. Other than that my parents garden always makes me feel very emotional I don't really know why as not a keen gardener or anything I just love it.

Yes to bluebell woods.
Bach. So perfect, so sublime.
When you can fly in a dream
A full moon.
Birdsong, especially blackbird, songthrush, nightingale.
Wind in the trees in a wood.
Watching the swifts wheeling effortlessly across the sky
Drumming up a storm in a group.

Generally things that involve being outdoors in beautiful places, either alone or with loved ones. Riding my bike on a beautiful day. (I live somewhere gorgeous so always have fantastic views)
Sailing on a similarly beautiful day. The sun and wind on your face and the gentle fizzing noise that the boat makes as it moves through the water is divine.
Doing either of the above at sunrise or sunset is particularly lovely.I'm not a morning person actually but an early start when you have slept on a boat moored somewhere scenic is so peaceful. Eating bacon butties for breakfast and then slipping silently away before anyone else is awake so you have the water to yourself is what I imagine heaven would feel like.
Music, particularly if Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Mahler or Liszt wrote it.
Watching my daughter dance.

Being by the sea, in a forest, up a mountain - anywhere outdoors and where the light moves naturally.

Being in a large crowd, which has come together for a common purpose always moves me - I blub watching marathons, or music concerts, even street parties!

Music. Poetry. Song. Art. Newborn babies. These things inspire wonder.

The last few nights, the moon has been spectacular. I have been sleeping on my veranda overlooking the sea, the moon on the water and the air cool and hushed. Nothing else in the universe but the stars, the moon and me. Awesome, in its original definition.