Category: Nature Therapy
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Rainbow Bridges and Other Goodbyes
Love leads and when lives end, grief rushes in and tries to take its place. I’m on a journey to keep the love alive, move forward WITH the grief. It will come along too. I will learn to cohabitate with it.
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Wilderness Connection
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat,” Laura Ingalls Wilder Humans spend an extraordinary amount of time indoors, despite being innately, intrinsically linked to the great outdoors. Millions have learned to thrive in urban environments, though I can’t imagine how. It turns out, research studies tend to agree. Study after…
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Solo Soul Searching
It’s been two years and four months since I took a tent camping excursion into the Bankhead Forest, completely solo. It was just over a month into the nightmare that some called a ‘pandemic’, which continues on today, but the peace gained on that trip has long since faded. As I looked through a few…
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Ms. Maisy Grace
Camper renovation project became a little emotional rollercoaster before it was through. But it was finished just in time for a weeklong local camp! Well, glamp in my pretty new girl.
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Make it quiet
Staring at this screen, screaming on the inside in rage Shoving fear physically out of my way So much to say but thoughts collide Exploding into vapors afloat Into a place void of capturable words Too many words, articles, snark and memes Consumption of them makes me crazy Hate’s become the norm Propaganda floods our…
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Nature paid it forward
We have treated our poor life-giver badly, tossing plastic and masks and other trash about. But Mother Nature is strong, resilient. People, not so much. All origins of anything we have can be traced to a naturally occurring thing. Medicines, building materials, clean food and tools, fire and energy all come from her bounty.…
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Cagy no more
Oh my! Where did three entire months since I wrote anything I felt worthy of publishing go? Maybe I’ve been consumed with the world’s trash machine. I tried to stay neutral and silent in this world, but found myself sharing more of my opinions on LinkedIn. I have no idea why, it’s just added noise…
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Choose Hope
We are all mad, hurt, disappointed, fearful and more ~ and trying to look through another lens is difficult. But try. . . there may just be joy and hope on the other side.
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Savage Life
Beauty and time in nature help heal the brain and the body. This is my big nature adventure to Savage Gulf backpack and hike.
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