A Tumbling Pace

Today at Renee’s school, Bear Creek Elementary, we had 99 kids ride their bikes to school where we greeted them with lots of bike swag.  Many of the kids made art out of recycled items like bags and plastic bottles:

After the morning Earth Day activity, I went out for a run in the icy cold rain.  As the rain fell hard and I tried to protect my iPhone, I listened to this great podcast from the Dirtbag Diaries that captures why so many of us need and want to play in the beautiful “Earth church” every day.   After the podcast was over I took off my headphones and just soaked in the sounds of the spring creek, the birds, my shoes on the mud and the lightly falling rain.