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| Caterpillar. Big Spring, Missouri. 2007. Credit: Mzuriana. |
The title Land Snorkeling popped up whilst I was tunneling an online rabbit hole about something or another and it surely did grab my attention. I'm not gonna link that article here because its website throws up an egregious quantity of pop-ups into the faces of visitors in addition to making it too challenging to customize one's cookie settings.
The founders of a different website, aptly named Land Snorkel, state they invented the term and its attendant philosophy.
"Land snorkeling is taking the time to savor aspects of nature we ordinarily don’t see or pay attention to. Land snorkelers wander through nature with no real destination."
I'm happy to report to myself that I have engaged in land snorkeling for much of my adult life, although I didn't have a name for it.
To make my foray a meditation, I abstain from phone use and earbuds, and slide up the volume of my senses: sights, sounds, smells, the touch of a breeze or the lack thereof. My focus is outward, not inward. What I mean by that is that I let go of self so that I can make room for other.
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