My St. Paul friend and colleague, Tracy Kugler, has developed an online guide for a practice that I nudge you to explore.

In chaotic times, we need places that calm us, that return our feet to the earth and our breathing to the wind.

Your local park can be such a place. Tracy’s guide, Start with a Park, can be used in the park closest to you, for a National Park further away, or even with a fence-line between fields.

It’s winter, a good time to see the shape of trees. Pick your park. Get started. You’re going to need this living companion in the days coming toward us. Let the birds and berries and trees be your companions in service of sanity and love.

The photo above was taken by Tracy in her chosen park – Horton Park in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Which park will you choose. Has a park already chosen you?

Once you’re quiet and grounded, you may want to make one of your possible Five Calls.