A Healthy Dose of Fresh Air on Mt. Tam
18 Jun 2009 ~ Categories: blog • body • eco-living • wellness
Well it’s almost summer, you know, and summer always inspires me to spend more time outside. Living in San Francisco, though, it can be hard to tell when it’s actually summer with all that fog blocking out the sun. June gloom, as we call it here.
One recent Saturday, I woke up to the dreariness of a socked-in June day in the city. I easily could have stayed in my toasty bed for hours. But, due to a hiking date with a friend who doesn’t take flaking lightly, I nudged myself into gear and over the GGB to Mill Valley.
As usual, I’m glad I did.
There’s something so invigorating about fresh air. High on Mt. Tam, the air takes on an energizing, healthy quality that makes me feel like I am inundating every single cell with nourishing oxygen and, dare I say, longer life.
It’s like being in an anti-pollution oxygen chamber, replete with the background symphony of happy birds and the intoxicating smell of sun-warmed sagebrush and manzanita. It’s a sensory experience that I wish I could wrap up and gift to all my friends.
And the best thing about fresh air is that it’s so democratic. (At least, if you have access to a place where you can be out-of-doors with no smog, and I realize that I am privileged in this world to be able to take that sort of thing for granted.)
Fresh air is, more or less, available to everyone; it’s free; and there’s no limit to the amount you can have.
I can’t encourage you enough to get over that bridge and treat yourself to a dose of nature’s finest.
Fresh air enthusiast,
Amy
