Re-Connect

As a kid, a friend and I spent hours catching crickets from rock piles in our backyards. Then we’d make little homes for them in gallon ice cream buckets. We’d put a layer of sand in each bucket, make little burrows, and cover them with flat rocks so the crickets could hide. And we learned that if we made them happy, they’d stay in their little rock-and-sand dwellings and chirp. We were thrilled to observe their activities and learn about them. Taking field notes, we learned what they liked – white bread with mustard was their favorite! We learned what the females looked like, and that only the males made noise. And we watched their tiny mandibles work as they ate. It was a joy to explore our world like this, and I’ll never forget the experiences of learning in nature just by playing and finding out what we could find out.

What Does Your Day Look Like?

Perhaps this is a more familiar scenario: Wake up to your beeping alarm. Pick up your phone, check social media, look at emails, maybe the news, and take stock of today’s schedule, all before you’re even out of bed. Then rush to work, sit for eight hours at a desk, in front of a screen, tapping at keys. Then arrive home, eat dinner in front of another screen until bedtime, when you reset the alarm and repeat the same circle. 

Why do we do this? Have you taken a moment to think about your daily circle and whether it’s bringing you joy, or bringing you down? Where is the natural world during your day? It’s certainly missing from this routine! The good news is, simple acts can reconnect us, with a little concerted effort. Focus, practice and intention can help us exchange our digital time for more time in the natural world.

Luckily nature is one of the most rudimentary connections we have to our own world. It allows understanding that no other learning or experience can replace. We learn so much about our ourselves when we’re in touch with the natural world, and engaged with it regularly. If you are feeling drained and alone, even though you’re “connected,” perhaps it’s time to consider a different sort of routine.

Nature calls you to come explore, but it never yells. It whispers, so you my have to turn down the TV, or go outside to hear it. You may have to listen carefully, and follow gently when the invitation arrives. Hear it? It’s calling you now. Don’t hear it yet? No worries! It takes practice and repetitions, just like anything you want to master.

Events Wild was created to fill that emptiness that you are feeling. We seek to reconnect you with the outdoors, with your own creative spark. Reserve a spot in one of our workshops and begin re-connecting today.