Prompt Eight: Dead Leaves in the Air
Focus on your earliest memory of nature and the outdoors. It doesn't have to be a trip to a national park, it could be as simple as feeding the ducks or throwing dead leaves into the air on Bonfire Night. What feelings does that bring up? And how does nature now, the outdoors, the world we're missing by being indoors, compare? And how will it look through fresh, child–like eyes when we can get back out amongst it?
Joe Minihane is author of today’s prompt, and also the author of Floating: A Life Regained, a beautiful, meditative memoir about wild swimming, and how it helped him deal with mental health problems. In the book, Joe follows in the footsteps - or rather strokes - of nature writing legend Roger Deakin, revisiting the places where he swam in his iconic book Waterlog. Both wonderful reads for anyone hungering for the outdoors. Thank you Joe.
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Amber x