A little while after I wrote the first Sitting In Nature riff, I came up with these additional thoughts about Nature observation.

I work in the field and the woods, pruning, planting, watering. On occasion, I sit deep in the woods to rest.

As I sit, even when I have intention to rest, to connect with Nature, my phone immediately comes out and I read texts, emails, the news, social media.

So if I’m deep in the woods, but still looking at my electronic devices, what am I connecting to? Nature? Am I hearing the message that she’s trying to send me?

Not really.

Maybe I should take a notepad and pen and write down my notes and my notes, and leave the world of Man behind. Maybe I should turn off the worldly, and connect to a higher power, a deeper message, a sweeter song. Only then can I be healed. Only then can I be rejuvenated through the magic elixir, that elixir which Nature and the Creator alone know how to brew and how to serve.