editorial

“People Think It’s Weird...”

...to love the earth. They do, and I have unknowingly tested it.

On days when the weather speaks to my soul (yes, I know how “hippie” that sounds), I take a straw mat out to the driveway, lay it out, and lie there in the warm sun. Personally, I’d rather sweat bullets any day as opposed to the slightest chill.

As the sun refuels me for the day (body and mind), I enjoy the songbirds singing in the trees to each other across the yard and/or neighborhood. I am in awe of the wind, as I listen to it coming across the fence, rustling through the trees, across my skin and...