12/09/2022
Find places in nature to call home.
Finding places in nature to call my own will continuously fill my soul. Places that I know well, and that it knows me well in return. Places I can return to time and time again and know that I am loved, accepted, and whole. The mycelium under the earth can feel my weight and know that it’s me, alerting the undergrowth, the trees, the bugs, and the birds that I have arrived and I feel their warm embrace. They hold me: my pain and fear, my joy and celebrations, the literal and emotional weight of me. These places I come to and I know I am connected to something greater. I am in nature, I am with nature, I am nature.
These spaces are mine and they carry me: they have seen me cry, laugh, dance, play, grieve, write letters, beg and bargain, love, smile, sit and think…all of it. And the reminder is always, “you are a tiny speck and a huge energy; you are but one being upon this earth, yet connected to all of it. Love. Love. Love. Rest. Rest. Rest. Simply…Be”.
Find your space away from the bustle, busy, material. Find your home within nature. Build relationship with this space. And learn to listen. Learn to BE nature. For we all are. And when you embrace nature…she will embrace you back…and you will never be alone.