MONDAY MOTIVATION MINUTE – Nature is not a place to visit…It’s home!
The Pulitzer Prize winner and environmental activist, Gary Snyder said it perfectly. “Nature is not a place to visit. It’s home.” Put that way, it becomes easy to understand the reasons to need to tend to Nature. I have often talked about the importance of getting out to Nature and embracing the healing power from being there. And I’ve definitely talked of the importance of protecting Nature. Now is always the best time to start and to continue to care. It’s up to us to care enough about our home to do what we can when we can for as long as we can to make difference. Making a difference can be as easy as purchasing something from our store (Posied Wanderer). A portion of our sales goes to various nature-based charities. 5% of all sales from June will go towards The Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy has been…
MONDAY MOTIVATION MINUTE: The Precipice of Change…are you willing?
Sometimes you have this compelling feeling something isn’t quite right but the reason why you have this feeling can often be hard to see or know. You can be walking into a meeting at work and have this impending doom feeling or find yourself having an uneasy feeling about going on another date with the same person you saw last week. Or even something as simple as that feeling of just waking up on the wrong side of the bed. When you have those feelings in these instances and don’t know why, something in your life can be out of balance. And when things are out of balance, they will eventually get to a tipping point and fall. These “not quite right” feelings are your mind’s way of saying something needs to change before things come tumbling down. You are on the precipice of change and most of the time,…
Monday Motivation Minute – The Imperfect Beauty of Nature
Once you see it, it is nearly impossible to not be taken in by its beauty! This 277-mile scar in the high desert cut by the Colorado River is marveled at by millions of people every year. But a 6-inch scar across my face cut by a car windshield that was shattered in an accident is gawked at by beachgoers as I sit enjoying a peace the ocean brings. A tree defiantly standing after being struck by the intense flash of a lightning strike will stand strong for the world to see. But I hide my arms under long sleeves so the world will not see the scald marks left by a stern parent who taught me a lesson. People will marvel at a tree that had to adapt to grow while under the constant pressure of wind blowing across the meadow. But when I find ways to adapt to…