This week Awesome Stories bring you walking for love, the tip of time, soul food, and Earth Day.
Walking for Love
Matt Hopwood has spent years walking around the United Kingdom, collecting love stories from people he meets along the way. It started with Matt wanting to create more meaning in his life and build a base of connection and activism. After a personal revelation, he had the idea to walk around meeting people and providing them a safe space to share their stories. Matt believes (and I would agree) that love is the foundation for connection and social justice and built by sharing stories in a safe environment. This sharing of stories builds compassion, understanding, and connections across typical divides like age, race, religion, etc. This project has gone on for 7 years, during which time Matt has both shared and collected hundreds of love stories. Those stories have been crafted into a website and book called A Human Love Story to continue building connections and growing the project.
Nature’s Soul Food
Most of us know the benefits of spending time in nature. If not, here is an article about How Nature Makes Us Healthier. Besides boosting happiness, time in nature has been shown to improve physical, mental, and emotional well being. Nature helps us reduce stress and feel connected to something bigger than ourselves. For me, time in nature is soul soothing and feels like coming home. I know my hiking and camping trips in National Parks were life-changing. Those treks gave me a new level of appreciation for the beauty, grandeur, vibrancy, and inter-connection of nature. During this Earth Day weekend, I plan to spend some time in nature, appreciating her many precious gifts. I believe the more we love and appreciate nature, the more benefits we receive. She has been very generous with me. Thank you Mother Earth.
The Tip of Time
Everybody alive today exists at the tip of time’s arrow, at the pinnacle of Being, the highest summit of evolution. ~ Nicos Hadjicostis
In this heartfelt article, Nicos Hadjicostis reminds us of our privileged place in evolution. We as humans are at the tip of time and evolution. No matter where or when we stand, we are literally at the leading edge of time. Today, we are more advanced with more power, knowledge, and technology than any other generation, with the opportunity to bless or curse the earth for decades. Nicos has a much more optimistic perspective; that simply being at the tip of time will bring awe, responsibility, and gratitude. I see too many signs of a human world in disarray, neglect, and despair. I hope that we collectively embrace the responsibility, power, and gratitude that he speaks to in time to restore beauty and balance to the world.
May your week be full of love, beauty, and nature. Happy Earth Day!
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How sweet the piece on Walking for Love. To collect love stories like that – oh, my heart. ❤ That makes me want to do something like that for the earth – in honor of earth day. But well..my plate is wonderfully full, so I will just have to file that thought for now. Hehe. Happy Saturday and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Thank you for your beautiful awesome stories and I hope work continues to go well.
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Agreed Cynthia. How wonderful to travel while collecting love stories from people. Thanks for appreciating and supporting my blog.
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Love your quote on this post Brad.. as being on tip of times arrow on the pinnacle of Being.. 🙂 And yes, Nature Nurtures and Heals.. And You will find me this time of year more in Nature than anywhere else.. ❤
Happy Earth Day Brad.. 🌷💙
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Thank you Sue. I appreciate you taking time from your garden to visit me online. It’s turned out rainy all weekend, so I’m delaying my time in nature. 🙂
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Hope the weather soon brightens.. Enjoy your week Brad.. 🙂
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Thanks Sue.
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Awesome stories perfect for Earth Day, Brad. I love Nicos’ perspective. I hope we are humble while enjoying our privilege and can rise to his optimism. 🙂
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Thanks Diana. I hope so too and like your summary! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Anything is Possible! and commented:
Love, nature, and love of nature lead me to re-blog these “Awesome Stories” from Brad. I related well to his experience that time in nature is “soul soothing and feels like coming home.” Let’s continue to celebrate planet Earth with gratitude and compassion.
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Thanks JoAnna. Happy Earth Day!
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Thanks, Brad. I’m still feeling it. 🙂
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Wonderful!
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An amazing project!
Collecting stories of love from strangers is rather beautiful.
Best
Young
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Agreed. Thanks for connecting Young.
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Totally agree that nature makes us healthier – mentally and spiritually. I just hope we can keep and preserve nature to be enjoyed by the next generation ❤
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Agreed Indah. Maybe our passion and action will inspire others to take care of her.
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Aw, I love that your experience of nature is like coming home, B. It’s really very sad, this whole other artificial world we’ve built in all our technological savvy. We wall ourselves in and lose connection not only with the world we’re a part of but ourselves.
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Agreed Diana. Thanks for caring.
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