Concrete to Grass: How Green Spaces Unlock Our Inner Magic
When did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of parks and other areas of green spaces?
I’ve been asked a lot lately: what are my dreams? What is it I want to experience?
So many things ping pong around in my head.
I just read this headline and remembered one I’ve held for a long while:
As developers pave over Charlotte, a local farm gets $1.4M boost to grow dramatically
It reminded me of a desire: to be able to buy LAND with no buildings on it to save it from being paved over. We need the trees. We need empty expansive spaces to run and feel delight and freedom. We just need to not have more buildings with climate controlled environments and no sunshine.
Whenever I take my grandson outside, especially to a park, he runs and runs and runs. Sometimes he’ll turn back and wait for me to catch up — and when I’m close enough, he starts up again.
And I find myself wondering: when did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of these spaces? WHY do we have to monetize them with a storefront, home, parking structure? What the hell is wrong with green spaces?
Let’s go back to our joy and delight in running in the grass! — literally and figuratively.
We have been conditioned to think noise is normal. The noise of what I call boy toyz, watching or streaming all day every day, music, billboards distracting drivers. You can’t even use the public restroom without the noise of advertisement! We have unlearned how to just BE with our very own selves.
The thing is, we hold magic and so much potential that when we add all the various noises into our lives, it dumbs it all down. It holds it all at bay.
How can wisdom be realized? How can you hear the whispers if you don’t put your toes on the earth and allow the breeze to caress your face?
Join me in UNLOCK your Quintessential. Magic is waiting for you. Take time to stop, breathe, be still and allow magic into your life.
And go outside and say thank you to god that you actually CAN go outside.
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