Nature Reflections

Today

What is not important:

• spelling and grammar 
• sentences

What is important:

• isolation (at least 3 arm lengths)
• collect thoughts/ideas

Nature Reflection Journalling

Option A

Checkout a clipboard, pen/pencil and paper (4 sheets) - you will glue these in to your journal later. 

Option B

Bring your journal, and write directly on your pages.  Pen/pencil is obviously still important. 

First impression:  What are you feeling?  What are you thinking? What do you hear? What do you smell?  What do you see?

Write.

Second impression: Remain alone, sit quietly, close your eyes, open your eyes.  Focus upon something very close to you. Stare at it for a while.  What do you see?  What is happening?  Why is it there? What does it remind you of?  Write.

"One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us."  

~Black Elk

Third impression:  Remain alone, sit quietly, close your eyes, open your eyes.  Focus upon something far, far away. Stare at if for a while.  What do you see?  What is happening there?  Why is it there?  What does it remind you of?  Write.

Look!  Look!  Look deep into nature and you will understand everything.

   ~ Albert Einstein

Last impression:  Remain alone, sit quietly, close your eyes, open your eyes.  You are getting ready to leave your place, a place you have studied, a place that has been all yours, a place where you have been alone.  You may choose to write a poem, a personal reflection, a comment about the Bay as both a place of nature and a place that shows great impact  from the industrial revolution.
Write about what you are feeling now.  

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