Tag: nature
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Words For Your Younger Self
A phrase keeps repeating in my recent reads, thoughts and prayers> It’s ‘ancient paths’. Were we ever meant to walk these modernized roads? It seems the advances by science are making science more necessary to cure us of all the ails leaps in food manufacturing made. We must get back to things made by God.
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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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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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Dirty Hands = Happy Heart
NOTE: I began this article just before COVID-19 became a global crisis, shutting down travel industries, then local gatherings and even restaurants and bars. I am no health professional or scientist, but my second brain screams loudly that in the midst of a global pandemic, outside is exactly where we need to be. You can…
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Hugging Trees May Have Health Benefits
Many years ago, I was going on a hike that one of my dearest friends could not join. When I talked to her the day before, she casually said “hug a tree for me” and as silly as it sounds to some, that was a request I intended to honor. I did… and I was…
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Look up, Child!
Best views may be above us, signs of how we should turn in life are from above. God is above us all, look up child!
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Flower Killers
Don’t let anyone trample your figurative flowers. Nurture yours and the flowers of others

