Did you know the last time you played in your backyard would be your last time? Did you know the next day you'd suddenly be deemed too old and cool to enter? When did we switch the blades of grass across our feet & mud soup for bed
While I love a good national park, national forests can often offer the same amount of beauty and awe you’re in search for in the parks. Shawnee National Forests in Illinois was one of those places that had me thinking “I did not know this state looked like this”
1. Laugh at yourself—all the time. At every stumble over an uneven sidewalk, your jokes, your failures. Laugh at every embarrassing thing you do until embarrassment is something you shrug off. 2. Always make the time to reconnect with and show love to Mother Nature. She is your mother