Re-Connect
As a kid, a friend and 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 fill each bucket with sand, 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 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!
When did you last allow yourself to watch a flower open to the sun? Or see a bird building a nest?
What Does Your Day Look Like?
Perhaps this is a more familiar scenario: Wake up with your alarm. Pick up your phone, check social media, look at emails, and today’s schedule before you’re even out of bed. Then 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. Where is the natural world during your day? It’s certainly missing from this routine! The good news is, simple acts can reconnect us, but it takes 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,” join us.
Nature calls you to come explore, but it never yells. It whispers, so you have to listen carefully, and follow gently when your invitation arrives. Hear it? It’s calling you now.
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.