Paula Frizzell   IG and Facebook:  paulacfrizzell 

We met on IG  when you tagged me on your beautiful IG post of a bird saying you’d read my book. I was delighted. Please tell us your story. 

Well  my story is a long one but a positive one about what  trees,  nature, and mindfulness can do in  our lives.   Your book, Take Back Your Outside Mindset  spoke to me and I devoured it, then ordered more to share with those who I love that are suffering.  And I am getting lots of great feedback from them. They tease me about going forest bathing with their husbands.

So this gets my mind away from things and you never know what you might see if you are noticing. So taking the photo relaxes me.

This morning I was doing that. My husband brought me some daffodils, narcissus and I shot deep into the flower. That was my meditation time to look deep into the flower to see what I could see. I use a macro setting to get deeper and deeper into the flower.

That  is where the gratitude comes in. To see if through the lens of a camera, upload those photos to a computer or ipad, to see the infinite detail and creation inside that bulb is amazing.

It is like a dove sitting outside here in my courtyard, it has purple and pink – it has so many colors. If you are just driving by, you will see a mourning dove as just a grey bird. But they are not grey at all. Their eye is black but it is ringed with turquoise. So that is where I am grateful for that extra eye  -- that extra vision of all that is out here.

For the spring and winter I focus on birds. For the summer and fall I focus on  plants, bugs, and butterflies.  I do waterfowl in the winter time because that is when the ducks and the other water birds are out and about in our area.

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Thank you to our podcast listeners in now 26 countries and 309 cities around the world. I would love hear your comments on this episode and others – just go to my website treesmendus.com. (all one word) Please check out my book and workbook Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Prevent Dementia, and Control Your Chronic Illness. 

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