The Environment Is Sensual

As Al Gore has stated many times correctly and which I also bellieve, the environment and solving the climate crisis is a moral issue. I also believe that the environment is very sensual. Nothing arouses me more than being out in nature. Feeling the Earth under my feet, breathing in the fragrances of the trees and hearing the sounds of nature (especially water) is a real turn on to me. Now, you don't see many people talking about the environment in that way or noting that corrolation, but I believe there is something to that and also the connection we share with Mother Earth that is spiritual and sensual.

Just to recount an experience of mine: years ago my husband and I were trying to have a baby and nothing we tried worked. I won't go into specifics but we were having a rough time of it and couldn't understand it because we were both healthy. Anyway, I went to my doctor who said to me that I was overworked and overstressed and that if I just got out into a natural setting away from all of the stress, noise, and city life and just took in the surroundings without thinking of it as a chore that it would happen... Well, not too long after that my husband and I went on a trip to Kauai and when I came back ( which I did not want to do) I was pregnant with my son. And I believe it truly was because I was in a natural setting that was an extension of myself where I could feel relaxed and free that life came from life. And I also saw a difference in my husband which I liked very much. It actually was the greatest and most intense experience of my life which I hope to recreate on a regular basis once my son is grown and on his own. ;-)

Aside from that, there is something to that in how we live our lives in corrolation to the atmosphere of the world. As we can see, a stresed world like ours where nature and environmental stewardship is not a priority lives in war, whereas a world more in tune with its own self and sensuality is at peace. It is the same for the human body and soul. Perhaps that is why so many Republicans in Congress and those of the right wing variety don't identify with the environment... they have a hard time with sensuality and sex and think it bad rather than a beautiful expression of the extension of our Earth which is connected to our souls. I say, their loss.

And how many of us today live in concrete cities being overworked, underpaid, and stressed out to the max over the daily routines we never question letting our true selves and desires go unanswered? Do you truly believe that was the way life was meant to be? Don't you then instantly feel free and renewed once you have left that concrete prison and the stress and descend into a world of natural and sensual desires?

That is why I also am interested in water issues, because apart from it being a human right and a necessity for life it is also a very sensual substance that renews the soul as well as the body and that renewal is something inate in us that we all seek. I guess you could then say that nature is my religion and my aphrodesiac, and being in it is what truly feeds my body, my soul, my mind, and my spirit.

So on this Earth Day I have every intention of taking a trip into that nature to reflect upon the life we have made for ourselves in this concrete world and the life we can have by looking for that spiritual and sensual balance... and then working to see the one we can have become a reality.

Happy Earth Day.

Living in the city is a soul-killing experience. I'm aware every moment that I'm surrounded by noise and toxins and people living far too close to each other, with the same effects you get when you overcrowd rats (they start to chew off each others' limbs, eat their own young, etc.). This weekend I plan to take my dogs out to the park. I'm luckier than some, at least, because I haven't lived in this pit all my life, and I have had the experience of being able to connect with nature - but there are far too many who have never had that opportunity, so they can't understand why it's precious and worth protecting. Many who have never even had a pet or even a plant to care for, though I can't even imagine that. Part of their soul has just never come to life. The true cost of our industrial society.

I have lived in cities all of my life but because I was lucky enough to be able to get away to nature as a child, the understanding of that connection was instilled in me very early and has stayed with me.

People who live in cities have a much smaller environmental footprint than people who don't.

People *should* live in cities, and we should strive to make our cities wonderful, exciting places bountiful with opportunity and creature comforts.

But not at the expense of our souls.