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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to get to know one bit of nature.

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Speaker 1: By visiting the same place repeatedly at different times of

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Speaker 1: the year, you can appreciate the natural world in a

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Speaker 1: new way. My family moved to a new house in

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Speaker 1: January of this year. It's near some woods, and so

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Speaker 1: almost every afternoon when I need a break, I go

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Speaker 1: for a short walk in those woods. I vary my

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Speaker 1: roots slightly, but it's not a huge woods. So I

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Speaker 1: am seeing the same scenery most days, and since January

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Speaker 1: that scenery has changed a lot. In January and February,

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Speaker 1: some days were snowy. On non snowy days, I could

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Speaker 1: see the slanted afternoon light through the bare branches and

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Speaker 1: appreciate that tree bark comes in an array of natural hues,

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Speaker 1: white to dark brown. Somewhere around the beginning of March,

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Speaker 1: a few tiny green shoots poked through the dead leaves.

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Speaker 1: Then there were the wild flowers, and a mist of

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Speaker 1: green slowly rolling up through the brush, the small trees

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Speaker 1: into the canopy. Each day, the change was barely perceptible,

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Speaker 1: but over a hundred and twenty days, everything changed. And

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Speaker 1: since I walked in that woods on probably close to

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Speaker 1: one hundred of those one and twenty days, I saw

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Speaker 1: those changes. I saw the sequence of spring taking hold,

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Speaker 1: and I will see what will happen as everything mellows

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Speaker 1: into some or and then again as it models and

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Speaker 1: to fall. Maybe you have somewhere you could visit almost

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Speaker 1: every day too, and nearby woods can be great as

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Speaker 1: an afternoon break, but a little corner park can show

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Speaker 1: how things change too. Or maybe you live somewhere without

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Speaker 1: four distinct seasons, but there might be a dry season

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Speaker 1: and a rainy season, or some other split of the year.

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Speaker 1: There will still be lots to observe. Find a spot

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Speaker 1: you could visit often. There are a great many reasons

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Speaker 1: to go outside every day, and if you have a

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Speaker 1: destination in mind, you might be more likely to go.

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Speaker 1: Pay attention to each tree, to what comes up in

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Speaker 1: the ground, to what the sky looks like in the

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Speaker 1: changing light. You want your little spot of earth to

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Speaker 1: feel like an old friend. We spend a great number

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Speaker 1: of hours on screens and inside, but the world is

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Speaker 1: a marvelous place. It's easy to miss many of those marvels.

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Speaker 1: When you visit a spot of nature almost every day, though,

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Speaker 1: you can't help but notice things and appreciate things like

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Speaker 1: the shape of leaves, the different shades of green, the

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Speaker 1: sounds of birds, what wild flowers pop up and unlikely places,

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Speaker 1: and so forth. Over time, the discipline of this daily

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Speaker 1: visit can make time slow down a little. We are

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Speaker 1: not measuring time and how quickly someone responds to an email. Instead,

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Speaker 1: we are looking at a drama that unfolds over months,

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Speaker 1: then cycles and repeats itself. The world is bigger than

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Speaker 1: whatever drama is in your inbox, and even a little

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Speaker 1: spot of nature can show that. In the meantime. This

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Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to hear

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