[at Nav's request/suggestion, I'm putting this up on the WBB. Usually this stuff is reserved for my journal and correspondence with The Nav-man but I agree that it may provide some good late-winter inspirado for the WBB readers]
. . . i notice that when I blow an hour or two in front of the computer idly just sort of taking in information and surfing the web (sort of like channel surfing on TV) i feel like my energy is being sapped out of me. The idleness is not restorative and it makes me feel a bit badly about myself and wasting my short life here. However, when I am outdoors in nature my idleness does not sap me and it is instead restorative. Walking in the woods or sitting by a lake or the beach — so long as I am mostly alone with my thoughts and with nature feels like exactly what I should be doing with the short amount of time I have here on earth. I can not wait for the first warm days of spring to walk alone through the fields and trails of Thompson Park back along the reservoir.
