Earth day week episode: time away from the city, time spent in nature, time spent with our best companions- I used to think how obvious this is —of course, deprivation from nature is a bummer. Who doesn’t know that? When our visual environment is just the soulless, overcrowded cities with straight lines, it messes with our perception and psychology; a lack of Vitamin D from sunlight makes people sad; how strange it was to me that people needed to see a physician for medical advice, when nature was free and plentiful. Fast forward to the present day, I no longer consider the point ridiculously obvious. After all, we are navigating a pandemic that has drastically increased our screen time and, for many of us, we are worn out and ground down from restrictions, global illness, and death. But I think more than ever we need to make earth day every day...