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Slowing Down and Reconnecting with Nature
After an unusually long winter, the fruit trees are finally in blossom. Dandelions are sprinkled across lawns and migratory birds are singing mightily, a dawn chorus for anyone who is awake at that hour. Connecting with nature can happen in any season, but each change in weather, temperature and in the creatures and plants around us, also shifts how we relate to it all. The arrival of each season signals transition, and an invitation to slow down and notice what is happening with nature. This is also an invitation to reflect on what is happening with us—as we are, after all, part of nature, not outside of it. This assumption that we are disconnected observers from nature is a phenomenon of our modern, technological world, not an inherent reality for human beings. Many people, in urban settings especially, can go for many days without interacting with plants, animals, rocks, soil, trees, and the starry sky, unless they are intentional about it.