Status Updates From Nature's Housekeeper

Before, I looked upon the natural world in awe and mystified bewilderment. Now, no less daunted, I stood fascinated by its splendor and solemn dignity.

[...] until that moment, I had labored under the naïve notion that dirt was dirt.

The only way to break my consumer dependency was to cut off my supply line, money.

I looked around. I was in my apartment. Or heaven. Or hell . It didn’t matter because I wasn’t in the forest any longer.

Mike has read--or should we say devoured the writings of Henry David Thoreau--and realizes his life is based on what he has read in books and not through experiences. So he quits his English professor job and goes to work in the local state park in trail maintenance. At this stage he is still trying to figure out the job, yet it seems the right move for him.

Although I love the beauty of nature, sometimes the grittiness (sp.) and bugginess, not to mention lack of toilets keeps me out of the backwoods. So I can appreciate Mike's initial attitudes.

Hilarious