Enjoying the Small Things

Breath In


Breath out


I feel the cold winter air caress my lungs as I step out onto my deck this this clear winter morning.  I walk down off my deck into the snow covered yard and feel the crunch of snow underneath my boots.  The wind blows in from from north bringing promise of cold day and more snow.


A life is all about enjoying the little things.  From the touch of cold winter air in your lungs to how the grass feels under your feet.  This is doubly important when your goal is to lead a environmentally conscious green life.  To be be able to enjoy the little things that the natural world has to offer is the key to finding the desire and momentum in order to live a green life.  It is so easy here in America to get distracted by other entertainments or to become hard to amuse.  With all the TV, movies, Internet and other numerous ways to entertain ourselves and enjoy our lives available to us we forget all about the world around us. 

The world that protects us from the harsh cold of space, captures the Suns energy and provides us the food and shelter we need to live.  It is so important that we learn to appreciate the natural world for all the parts that make it up.  We must learn to appreciate the Sun the rain the wind the soil the plants and the animals for all that they are.


Without the Sun we would live on a cold barren lifeless rock.



Without the rain nothing would grown and all life would cease to exist.



Without the soil plants would have no home and we would have no food or air.



Without the animals we would have no one to share this wonderful planet with.



We must appreciate the natural world not the false world we create around ourselves.  If we bury ourselves in the false world we will loose touch with what nourishes us to our very core.  So please after you are finished with this post get up go outside and go for a walk, sit under a tree, listen to the birds and breath in the wind as it blows over the grass.  Feel the connection to the natural world and let it inspire you to do whatever you can to pass on a better world to the next generation.


Until next time my fellow environmentalists

Josh