Nature
February 2026
Ten days of silence in a cedar forest. No phones. No reading. No talking. By day three, the language in my head began to dissolve. By day six, the forest started to feel less like scenery and more like a presence.
What the forest teaches is patience - but a different kind than the patience of waiting. It is the patience of accompanying. Of being alongside something that does not need you to perform.
Most of us have never been this kind of patient. The forest will teach you, if you let it.
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