When a household wants to bring nature and the real world back in
Your household lives almost entirely indoors and on screens — cut off from nature, from the physical world, from tangible real life. You feel a collective flatness, a restlessness, a sense of being estranged from the actual world, and you want to bring nature and the real, physical world back into your family's life, together.
That your household feels this collective flatness is worth heeding together. Notice how much you live in the made world — your life has moved almost entirely indoors and onto screens, estranged from the earth and sky and living world your beings were formed within, felt as a vague hunger no screen quiets; name it as a family of natural creatures living in a made world. Bring the household out into the given world — walks, parks, meals outdoors, the weather and sky met directly, made a regular thing not a rare event, for the natural world's slower rhythm settles the hurried mind and draws you out of the screens' tempo, and you need no wilderness, only the nearby park and open sky. And bring the real and physical into the home too — cooking together, making things by hand, real games, tending plants — tangible shared doings that reconnect you to the world and each other, leaving less room and need for the screens. Restore the real, and you reconnect the family to the world and to one another. What would you most want to bring back?
What changes unlock by starting
- You notice how much you live in the made world
- You go out into the given world together
- You bring the real and physical back home
- You reconnect to the world and each other