Monday, April 13, 2015

Being Outside

My girls know I love being outside.  Two weeks ago I was desperate on a Monday evening to be OUTSIDE, and so I fed them dinner and brought them to our closest park, only a mile from our house. I said we would play on the playground AFTER we walked the trails.

Sunset over a field...sisters on a stump...mama filled with joy!

I told them to run ahead so I could take their picture on the trail. They held hands. I sighed.

The heart was their idea. My heart was SO full--being outside with these two beautiful people!
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” -
John Burroughs 

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” -Edward Abbey

“The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.” -Ellen Burns Sherman 

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