Outdoor activities, including play, movement, and intentional being (as opposed to mindless doing), have numerous mental, physical, and spiritual health benefits. If you do not spend much time outdoors now, I am confident that you will feel a difference in your well-being after spending time outside each day for a month. This
Our culture teaches us at a young age that there is a hierarchy of beings with humans at the top. We learn that animals are next in the hierarchy. They also have brains and can feel. We objectify everything else, including plants. Recent research, however, indicates that plants may be more
What do you think of as natural resources? The first things I often think of are oil, wood, and metals. However, water is obviously more critical to our lives than any of those things; we cannot survive without it. Because water is inexpensive and easily accessible to many people in the
When considering the eukaryote domain of life, most of us think of plants and animals. Another major kingdom is fungi. We severely underrate fungi. We would not exist without fungi, and fungi can be utilized to help save the world. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase a product from
In 2021, my guiding word is regenerate or regeneration. For many people, January means that it’s time to make resolutions for the new year. Typical New Year’s resolutions include In my recovery from overexercising and restrictive anorexia nervosa, I realized that I needed to abandon traditional new year resolutions. In 2019,