Going Home

We’re lucky to live here. We all know that, but sometimes we forget. As notable 20^th century philosopher Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”. We live in a world where a constant connection to digital media often comes with a disconnection from our natural world. We imagine the phantom vibration of our phone in a pocket while failing to fully acknowledge the sun our faces or the breeze at our backs. We obsess over screens while neglecting what we can see out our own window. We occupy our time with doom scrolling news feeds instead of listening intently to the good word delivered by fly catchers and thrushes. As we shift into summer, I’d encourage us all to intentionally disconnect and spend more time in the forests of our shared landscape. Leave the phone at home, forget the noise of your news feed, and go back to the forest—it’s shady glens, it’s rugged outcrops, and it’s wandering streams. Take time to marvel at something small and see the significance in things that may never make the front page, but which still stir emotion in your soul. “Going to the woods is going home”, as John Muir once wrote, so don’t forget to take every opportunity to go home this summer. 

We’re looking forward to seeing all those who can make it to our 1st annual Summer Social on July 23^rd in Montgomery. If the woods are our home, then this community is a family which shares it together. If you can, come celebrate this home and community with an evening of fun and fellowship where we can all slow down together, remembering what connects us to this place and to each other.

With love and gratitude,

You’re friends at Cold Hollow to Canada