Daily Archives: August 22, 2020

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Gentle Use During Trying Times – A Reflection (Dave Salzer, SWV)

There is an understood need to escape. The COVID surcharge taxing our physical and mental health is significant and increasing. So, in larger and larger numbers, we answer the call articulated by John Muir, and to the mountains we go! The latter, in itself, is a good thing. No doubt the outdoors offers the immediate and enduring correction to the mounting strain and the compiled stress placed on us at home, school, and work. I’d argue that unlike ice cream, Cabernet, binge watching favorite TV series, among other comforting compensations…going outside is purely restorative and beyond the old criticism of […]