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Activity Time: The Nature Crafts For Kids Book
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It’s strange how, during the pandemic, I’ve been mad at nature, yet have also drawn her more closely. I can’t help myself but feel angry toward the omnipotent force that sometimes I maybe take for granted. Perhaps I feel betrayed. What have I ever done to nature? Well, plenty, just by being alive in the world in the time that I am. How many Happy Meals (cups of coffee, etc) did I eat out of styrofoam containers, as a kid and as even an adult? Countless. Maybe I didn’t know then what I know now about how badly it has affected our planet. Plus, every child hurts their parent(s) in some ways, intentionally or otherwise. It’s just the way things go, even if it’s simply, naturally, when they leave the nest.
As a species, we’ve had it coming for awhile, so I can’t be that angry at nature for sending a vile and aggressive virus out at us to have to be sunk by or swim through. In fact, I forgave her fairly quickly, when I learned that the very same force that was trying to kill us, was also simultaneously offering me my only chance at experiencing the world right now. What an odd twist it was to the story when I learned that being outside was one of the safer places to be during Covid-19, besides cowering inside the home. It is that drive to be close to and in nature now…
