As you might know, if you’ve followed me for a while, I live pretty far out into the middle of nowhere in the Ozark mountains of Madison county, Arkansas. I love it here! I realize, though, that some people wonder exactly how nature makes me happy.
So I started a list of all the moments of joy I’ve experienced due to nature. As I think or experience others, I’ll add them to this list. If you have any to add, leave a comment so everyone can become more aware of just how easy it is for nature to bring happiness, even if it’s tiny moments.
And it doesn’t matter where I experience them – out in the middle of nowhere, or in a sidewalk crack in the city. The important thing is to stay alert for opportunities to experience the ways that nature makes me happy.
In this way, those moments happen more often. Or maybe it’s just that I recognize them more often. Your brain will become ‘attuned‘ to the things that put a smile on your face once you start recognizing those things. Then the Universe will present that to you more often.
On the flip side, if I focus on the things that make me sad, afraid, despondent, and depressed… well, the Universe has the same way of bringing more of that to my attention. So today, I’m focused on the ways nature makes me happy. Bring on more joy!
The Ways Nature Makes Me Happy
It’s all about the simplicity of these experiences, so they’ll be short & sweet:
- seeing a chipmunk run across the dirt road with his little tail in the air
- Listening to the summer tanager
- Watching fireflies on hot summer nights
- Seeing the milky way on cold winter nights
- Smell of plum blossoms in spring
- Scent of raccoons family by the hollow tree
- Rocks turned over by bears
- Animal tracks in the mud
- Safely relocating rattlesnakes after convincing hubs they didn’t all need to die
- Mist rising on the river
- Hawk close enough to see their eyes
- Cracked rocks on the driveway spilling color
- Bees, flowers, and veggies in my garden
- feeling a warm thermal on a cold day
- rain on a hot summer day
- Tasting first ripe tomatoes
- Stopping to eat berries off the bush
- Otters playing in the creek
- Beavers swimming in the creek
- Putting on lip tint I made with local pigment
- Painting with local pigments
- Doe bringing new fawn out in view
- the smell of rain on the way
- the first snowflakes in early winter
- the smell of my horses’ necks
Add to my Nature Makes Me Happy list!
Drop a comment and let me know the kinds of things you see, hear, smell, or feel that give you good feelings.
Contact & About
email: madison@wildozark.com
phone: (479) 409-3429
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I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
If you’re interested in buying or selling in rural northwest AR, get in touch with me by phone, text, or email. I’m happy to help! I have a separate website for my real estate blogging and information at WildOzarkLand.com.
All of my artwork is available in prints, and where originals are available, they are for sale. You can find all of that over at shop.WildOzark.com.
Call me “Roxann” or “Madison”, either one works.
For pretty much everything online, I go by Madison Woods, a pen name I adopted when I first began writing and then later with my art. For real estate, I use my real name, Roxann Riedel. And for my fiction, there’s yet another pen name: Ima Erthwitch.
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