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ELYSIAN - I want to give you the same feeling that you get in paradise.

Let’s just get the obvious stuff out of the way. I am a woman, I am a mother of three, I am very well educated, and I am celebrating a 50th birthday this year. Now you have some sense of the source of this blog, yet I hope to provide inspiration, ideas, and positive thoughts to more than middle-aged, educated mothers. I have loved and experienced things that go beyond those labels, and the things I hope to share have very little to do with those roles.

“So what is it you want to sell me?” you ask. I want you to go outside. Every. Single. Day. And, not just to your car, which will take you to your job, so you can make money to live in your house and feed your family and take your annual vacation. The vacation. That is, most likely, centered around being outside.

The outside is there, waiting for you, each day. What if you woke up 15 minutes earlier to take a walk, a run, a bike ride? What if you took the dog to the woods at night and looked up at the stars until your neck hurt? How about if you took a kayak and paddled out to a small island and took a nap on said island one warm, sunny afternoon? (I know, that’s crazy talk, right!?)

I think you would be surprised. It is the simplest things, sometimes, that offer us the greatest peace, clarity and sense of worth, and finding it all as you lose yourself in nature could be just the thing. It doesn’t cost anything. It doesn’t hurt anyone. What do you have to lose?

Just. Get. Outside.