Reconnect Nature Free Writing Workshops for Santa Ana Residents

Thank You for your interest in the Reconnect Nature Program! We are very excited to share simple ways to keep you connected to your local natural areas. We will be exploring the different locations in the area for our workshops, writing and sharing our connection stories. The goal of the program is to leave you with a sense of genuine care and concern for our natural world bringing you a sense of belonging. With exercises we share our thoughts and create a well rounded sense of community, and nature's place in it. This is the outline for the weekend.

Friday Sept 3 4p - 6p; Sasscer Park (301 W Santa Ana Blvd Santa Ana, CA 92701)
Urban Nature; taking recognition of the area with a brief history of the area to share the origin of landscape and nature people plant to create beauty.

Saturday Sept 4 5p - 8p Santiago Park (900 E Memory Ln Santa Ana CA 92706)
Sunset Reflections; with indigenous ceremony for welcoming nature into our lives and us into nature, talk about natural plants specific to our region.

Sunday Sept 5 3p - 5p Portola Park (1700 E Santa Clara AVE Santa Ana 92705)
Seasons Changes; walks to the abandoned orchard with reflection of our relationship with nature and agriculture in the area.

Please email me for more information - reconnectnatureblog@gmail.com

Choice is a beautiful thing...

I have experienced the truth of what is missing in child development, with outstanding, overbooked, stressed, anxiety ridden youth who survive in a numb state, surrounding the harsh raw emotion with meaningless, materialistic, false securities. Children have choosen stagnation over play, media over dirt, and entertainment over imagination. Now is only time in my life I am driven to take action and reverse the evolution of demis, bringing health and development back into the awareness to those who understand we are at a crossroads. We choose our path from this point forward and my heart aches as I write the emotion is strong telling me that my own attraction is beyond my time on this planet and must be shared with younger influence to see and experience the authentic teachings of our natural beings, before it is lost forever. Natural Thinking Systems Process is this teaching for myself as a vehicle to the future of work for my own connection and that of the next inhabitants. I would like to keep with the independent flow of the ProjectConnect and the long term learning systems of Micheal Cohen, this is going to ensure the level of authenticity is balanced and uninfluenced by traditional educational forums. I appreciate the purpose and system layed out before me to take and apply in my own medium allowing my authentic self to truely connect with nature and my community.

Take action!

The No Child Left Inside bill (NCLI) is currently still in committee. It will hopefully be attached as an amendment to the ESEA (No Child Left BEHIND) bill that Obama should be authorizing later this year. They both have a fair number of co-sponsors. In OREGON Sen. Wyden is a co-sponsor. Sen. Merkely is not.

Leadership from the House Education and Labor Committee issued a bipartisan statement last month reflecting their commitment to amending and improving ESEA (No Child Left BEHIND) this year.

They have flagged NCLI on their website as a key bill up for consideration and are inviting organizations and agencies to submit comments on NCLI and other legislation related to ESE.

The NCLI website recommends:

Please take a few moments today to email the Committee at eseacomments@mail.house.gov and let them know that you support the inclusion of the No Child Left Inside Act (H.R. 2053) in the reauthorized ESEA. Please consider calling or writing to your senator as well.

The Trail....reflection of the Sierras

The Gift; Air is a scarce resource in the LA valley, and to explore its freshness is a sense of true joy. One of the first things always to notice is the clean air, very thankful to the trees, sky, and wild for allowing this precious cycle to exist. I am gitty with its quality. On the morning of the Mt. Whitney ascent it is cool, and I refuse to stop breathing...any moment not taking in a breath is a moment never to return, as this is a temporary visit and nothing is to be wasted.
My Gift; Oh to be honest, my gift was given over again as respiration quickened and the oxygen became thin, my lungs ached with satisfaction of sorts to exert and be present in the exchange...so present.
Gift of Life; Words can not explain the way a trip into the wild can validate your life, and the gift of movement and ability. I am truly blessed to have an able body, and to engage on heights not known to most. I am humbled in the experience. To climb a mountain, is the greatest connection to self and surroundings.
Disconnect from Nature; My examples of disconnection happened literally on trail with a stumble because my mind wondered to other places, and my shoe would catch, and awaken the present moment with the surge of adrenaline. Popping my mind into focus to be with the mountain at all times for assurance of safety, and connection.
Nature wants you alive; Absolutely!! We reached the summit and were blessed with conditions ideal for the top of the peaks, clear sky slight breeze, and sun. Attraction to the sky heighten our awareness of building clouds signaling our decent to lower ground, time was ticking to safety...we were granted permission to descend and become protected at lower ground. Thankful we continued the communication with the skies and lead us to continue to travel in the amongst a surge of storms granting valuable information on our travels for the final days of the trip.
Connection with Nature Feels good; So True!! I am bursting with emotion from our excursion. I share the feelings every time I am asked...and people seemed like the message and feel the connection through me, as a portal of sorts to these wonderful feelings.
Words are your destiny; I learned the true meaning of intention, and commitment. I value myself to follow though with authentic meaning, this carries into my everyday life and I will draw from this example to form as a role model of my true self, this is my genuine attraction.
Natural sensations and feelings guide you; The days were determined by the sky, along the trail if water and sun arose in unison, we were drawn to bathe and sun for refreshed body and mind. The language became so ritualistic often minimal words were exchanged between me and my hiker companion on the protocol. Like the sky for safely, it offered joy and warmth, for drying and relaxed feelings. Trusting these was a natural attraction and trust was unquestioned.
Nature has no words

****In nature our multisensory is our awakening of deep soul connections to our systems, we are from the earth and constantly becoming earth, we communicate in the order of life, and cycles. A wisdom exists in this connection allowing growth and intelligence to guide our actions. the smaller the action the more subtle the attraction, building of the webstrings to strengthen the ties that bind. In this You Belong...every attraction is pulling you further into the web, luring you into the feelings of belonging and connection to life and balance. You are from nature and will return to nature, with or without your consent, the joy is that you can embrace this as truth, dispelling all anxiety about any non-natural choices you make. Draw close your awareness for this, and you can heal the suffering, and guilt from disconnection, keep in practice your true self and let attraction guide you to your life's destiny.

Reconnect Nature Writing Workshops Starting July

Reconnect Nature - Writing Workshop & Picnic

$25.00

Join naturalist Lyndie Bradshaw, and author Sarah Garcia for a two hour writing workshop focused on response and inspiration from the natural world with group collaboration. Each class will be themed with different tours and exercises to develop your skills.

Please bring your own writing materials (clipboards will be available), picnic and refreshments included for extra sensory experience.
JULY: Summer Reflections
AUGUST: Sunset & Rest
SEPTEMBER: Changes in Season

*Register for all classes and receive a $10 discount on the series.
REGISTER HERE

Conflicts Among... the many

The online scheduled class started weeks ago and just now I am posting again. This is a time of great change in our world, as I move forward the class requires me to post weekly exercises about my observations in nature and some of the difficult challenges that lay ahead. The conflict is in our society, and even within my own life and choices. This is the time to be completely honest and forward about where we stand on the issues, and the limited choices we are able to make. Along with on going heartache for the Gulf Coast and its members of fragile systems we see the webstring ties our delicate world together. I encourage you to look for the webstring in your area that is intact or broken, please take time to comment on what you see, or feel. What choices are you making that may have harsh environmental disconnection...my own is in the clothing industry, made from high end carbon/oil based textiles, shipped across the globe at astonishing rates, that seem to lack some consistancy...this is my reality.

How the city hurts your brain - The Boston Globe

How the city hurts your brain - The Boston Globe

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