The Natural State of Being

 The natural State of being for all life on earth is beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

This is why most people now often hide in the art forms we have built called houses or buildings. 

But, in avoiding the terrifying aspects of life we also avoid all the beauty of the wilderness too.

If we get too enmeshed in the Houses or buildings and forget where we all came from we lose something precious: "Who we actually are".

Because we have much more in common with lions and tigers and bears than we do with the artform houses we build and we live in.

So, without a voyage of self discovery out into nature into the wilderness often we are 1/2 or less human and we miss most or all of the beauty in life and often then there is only Alcohol or drugs to cope at all with being a human being here on earth.

I was very lucky to be raised by Christian Minister parents who didn't smoke or drink or do drugs.

You might frown on this but our happiness was always nature, always mountains, always lakes, always the oceans, Always the deserts and so on.

By being raised this way I didn't need alcohol or drugs or to smoke anything and I'm still this way even now at 77 years old.

It's likely one of the reasons I lived to be 77 years old in the first place.

I think wilderness and getting married and having my children and starting businesses and traveling to the wilderness both here at abroad has made my life an adventure and a beautiful thing especially since I got married and had my first child at age 26.

So, for me, the natural state of being in the wilderness has always been my true home.

So, I'm most at home in places like mt. Shasta, Yosemite, Yellowstone National Park and the Tetons.

I'm most happy in the Highlands of Scotland in the fall or spring or the same for Switzerland or Maui or Kauai or the big island of Hawaii. And I was happy trekking through the Himalayas with my family in 1986 too through Nepal and seeing the Rhinos there in Chitwan national Park there on the terai as well.

I am happy in the Sierras and in the Cascades from Mt. Shasta to Mt. Baker and on up into Canada too.

Wilderness is my home and if I have a church wilderness is my church where I can visit God in the natural primal State like Jesus and Buddha did too.

By God's Grace