Nature-Based Connection- A wish for all beings
In a time of reckoning with climate change and seeing people more disconnected from the rest of the natural world, I write a wish for us as humans to be able to reconnect to the rest of nature again; to be able to recognize the aliveness, wholeness, and well-being that is possible for all living beings if we were to do so.
May you find playfulness as you watch the neighborhood squirrel who runs across your fence, who springs up trees and makes friends with the birds. May she bring you inspiration to play.
May you find peace as you gaze at the trees on the sides of the roads, in backyards, and among playgrounds. The ones that have miraculously grown around cement and electrical wires and who have made your commute to work more beautiful, more connected, even if you haven’t noticed them before. May they bring you a moment of peace.
May you stillness as you watch the snow fall from the sky or rest upon the ground. Snow that brings moisture to so many beings, that allows you to recreate on your skis and snowboards and snowshoes. Snow that blankets the noises of this world for a moment, making it a little bit easier to hear yourself. May you find a moment of stillness.
May you discover awe as you notice the landscape you live within. The ways that mountains, deserts, oceans, beaches, prairies, grasslands, tundras all have a unique way of existing, all have different life living within them. May you discover awe.
May you wonder about deeper connection to the earth, to a plant, to an animal, to a being that you live near every single day and may have never noticed. May you wonder about their names, what their lives may be like, who they are and how they participate in your life. May you wonder if there are ways to take even one moment each day to notice connection with more than humans, to notice your connection in the rest of the web of life. May you wonder.