Earth with and without us, chasing fatigue away, living room outdoors

Greenery all around. A yellow butterfly darts in and around tall grasses. A bird swoops through and over. Dragonflies zip, hover, and zip. Bees — they dance from flower to flower.

I’m overwhelmed at witnessing such abundance in this tiny slice of earth.

This… this is reality, naturally. The way it was long before we were here. And if Earth wills it, it’ll be here long after.

Are we so arrogant to think Earth needs us?

No. In fact, through its machinations and the errors of our ways, it is slowly eradicating our presence.

In its own good time, we will no longer exist (or have spaced on) and our beautiful Earth will have unfurled her beauty ten-fold without us in the way.

It will be truly glorious times and none of us to witness it.

Que sera, sera.

Between intense quick trail riding on the bike and working on various things to outfit my car for camping/overlanding (and rescuing a fallen tree from being chopped up by cranking it away and off a picnic table), I’ve been sweating a lot. It’s a good sign. I miss and enjoy exerting hard enough to make the sweat come. It means I’m gaining my strength back so I can be more physically active and therefore it leads to better health.

I call it chasing the fatigue away.

It seems to be working, for the most part so far. Yay.

Often I’m the only one sitting in the fields of San Felasco preserve watching the sun fade under the trees. It’s such a beautiful sight with hue colored clouds dazzling over the tops of trees and darkening greens below.

I get folks have dinners to eat, families to care for, etc. But why not adjust schedules so they (and their children) can enjoy nature’s beauties rather than going indoors just when she’s getting started?

Regardless - communing with nature is why I prefer to live in a camper so that my living room is outdoors with the sunset as my wall and the stars my roof.