For obvious reasons, this can’t be a normal Trailist column. I’m sitting here in my apartment, listening to the rain pour down for the third straight day, trying to think of ways to recommend getting outdoors during these tough and ever-changing times.
Here’s the paradox: We all have to go outside, for our own physical and mental health. We can’t get our exercise at the gym anymore. And regardless of how nice your home workout set-up might be, I believe you need that frequent dose of sunshine, greenery, wildflowers and birdsong to keep you in touch with your own humanity and relationship to the natural world.
Read more from Brendan Gibbons with The Rivard Report here.