You are nature. I mean that with all kindness and
compassion. But I also mean it very, very earnestly.
Sometimes we forget that…
every breath.
every hunger-pang-nourished-with-a-bite.
every cozy-ensconcing-in-our-warm-homes.
…is a step back into true memory.
We are nature. We
cannot exist without it. We cannot deny it. We are still and abidingly nature.
For Earth Day (Wednesday April 22nd) this year, what
at-least-small effort can you make to honor the good memory of your fleshy.skinned.salty-ocean-tears.skeleton
and undeniable nature, the fullness of who we are as humans?
- ride a bike or a bus or walk to work
- skip the shower, or turn off the water while soaping up, or cut the length of it
- write a love letter, or poem, or story, or reverie about nature, a tree, oceans, mud pies
- eat only vegetables or avoid processed foods
- buy nothing at all for a day or a week
- plant a sapling
- write an email to local politicians about an environmental issue of concern
- eat dinner by candlelight
- make a resolution (committed practice) on behalf of the earth
- contribute cash to, or volunteer with, or make phone calls on behalf of a local nature org
- pick up garbage outdoors
- create something beautiful with found objects
- listen to birdsong
- watch the sunrise or sunset
- learn what “environmental justice” means
- meditate with your breath as the touchstone, or pray
- make a gratitude list on the back side of a used envelope
- use a hankerchief
- take a photograph of something pretty or disturbing in the natural world
- sit on the grass, in the crook of a limb, in the broad sunlight, on a river rock and allow total relaxation to be the salve that heals something within you
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