Graham says the walker\/artist is teachable, and the teacher is nature. \u201cNature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what your special quest is in life.\u201d<\/p>\n
I get the \u201cbeautiful\u201d part, but I\u2019m wondering how nature is going to show me who I am and what my quest is (or should be) in life. In my first retirement book, I suggested looking to one\u2019s childhood to find identity and purpose. What you loved and enjoyed then just might shine light on what you will love and pursue in retirement.<\/p>\n
Maybe that\u2019s the connection Graham is making with beauty. What do we consider beautiful in nature? Why is it beautiful? Maybe the answer to that question is the same as finding what we love in life and what we want to pursue in retirement.<\/p>\n
Graham says the student of nature \u201cstretches his arms for hidden gifts,\u201d which he will find in the \u201cmoonbeams and stars, the bird\u2019s song and the murmuring of trees and streams.\u201d The idea sounds much like the \u201chighways of the gods\u201d we explored earlier. We have to take off our blinders to see them.<\/p>\n
What kind of blinders? I don\u2019t know for certain, but I\u2019m pretty sure busyness, hurry and anxiety or some of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graham says the walker\/artist is teachable, and the teacher is nature. \u201cNature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what your special quest is in life.\u201d I get the \u201cbeautiful\u201d part, but I\u2019m wondering how nature is going to show me who I am and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3491,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}