Earth Day - a reflection from the inside out

Rest is Part of Growth

Life fills up fast. I think most of us know and experience this at some point.

There are appointments, school runs, deadlines, grocery lists, and somewhere in between all of that - actual work. We wear so many hats in a single day: Taxi driver, nurse, organiser, cook, listener, scheduler. And often somewhere at the bottom of that list: ourselves.

I know this from my own life. Not as a theory, but as a reality. And I wouldn't want to miss a single thing out of this.

And still, I look outside, take time. At the Rhine meadow near where I live in Cologne / Köln, where I took this photo. And I notice something.

Nature is not rushing.

The wildflowers aren’t rushing. The grass…