WILDERNESS THERAPY
The Finnish have figured it out! At least an hour a day outside in parks with no agenda. Look at cities like Helsinki, where everyone is walking around and when you go to a city park don't expect to stop someone for directions. Why? Because everyone there is right where they want to be. So, why do you need directions elsewhere? They will just act surprised or disoriented. At least that was my experience years ago. Okay, clouded through time and my own current need to have an explanation.
In a few more days I will be meandering, because that is how I "hike." My three steps to your every two, never get winded, just breath slowly and carefully, not walk so fast you miss your surroundings. It is hard to explain, when most of the time all of my movement has a purpose. I am going somewhere, doing something, getting to a destination.
Right now even I am in the Dominican Republic, with my wonderful family, and planning to go out to a local bagel place for breakfast.
For the last month I created the list you saw on my first post. The process of preparing for a "walk about" was so consuming, all of my usual struggles with work and the office politics that are so pervasive in any employment, took second place.
Yesterday I packed the final part of my journey into my car, so when I return, in a few days, I will drive north of Bismarck, North Dakota to the "terminus" of the North Country Trail, the longest national hiking trail in the US, photos to follow.
Suggestion read "The Nature Fix." Ok, I will confess. I really didn't read it, I opened it on Amazon and read about 20 pages of the 245 pages, and it was entertaining, all in first person, not enough "science" for a brain who likes studies on the brain from the Scientific American from years ago. But that WAS THEN.
In a few more days I will be meandering, because that is how I "hike." My three steps to your every two, never get winded, just breath slowly and carefully, not walk so fast you miss your surroundings. It is hard to explain, when most of the time all of my movement has a purpose. I am going somewhere, doing something, getting to a destination.
Right now even I am in the Dominican Republic, with my wonderful family, and planning to go out to a local bagel place for breakfast.
For the last month I created the list you saw on my first post. The process of preparing for a "walk about" was so consuming, all of my usual struggles with work and the office politics that are so pervasive in any employment, took second place.
Yesterday I packed the final part of my journey into my car, so when I return, in a few days, I will drive north of Bismarck, North Dakota to the "terminus" of the North Country Trail, the longest national hiking trail in the US, photos to follow.
Suggestion read "The Nature Fix." Ok, I will confess. I really didn't read it, I opened it on Amazon and read about 20 pages of the 245 pages, and it was entertaining, all in first person, not enough "science" for a brain who likes studies on the brain from the Scientific American from years ago. But that WAS THEN.
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