All by SaraJoy Pond

Shinrin Yoku 1

My inaugural forest bath involved a half-mile walk along the river in Boston. It was wet. It was COLD. And it was...bafflingly...meditative, restorative, and healing.

The Simplicity This Side of Complexity...

I love the quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity I would give my right arm;" but it had not until recently occurred to me that such garden-variety simplicity could actually be worse than useless.