On Saturday, January 9, I started a Frozen Feet Challenge. All I need to do is bundle up and get outside to walk, run, or hike at least one mile per day for six weeks straight. The challenge is free, your miles are on the honor system, mileage for the week has to be logged in by each Sunday night of the challenge or else you get kicked out. If the weather sucks, too bad. Get out. Do your mile. It's the Frozen Feet CHALLENGE, not the Frozen Feet Easy. No prizes involved, just the satisfaction of completing a challenge.
I do enjoy walking and hiking for exercise but there's another component to time spent in natural settings, one that's good for the soul: stopping to look at fungi growing on a rotting log, photographing flowers, butterflies, and bees, watching sunlight filter through trees, admiring a sunset. It's stress relief and meditation rolled into one.
"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
~ John Muir, Our National Parks
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