I don't know. I think it's sort of part of the way I grew up. We lived in a little rural
community east of Ottawa and there was always lots of woods around and many trails. As a
regular kid I watched my share of hockey. I played hockey and watched my share of television.
There was nothing like Saturday morning getting out in the woods. Right now I'm out here in
a little little wood west of Ottawa where we live and it's springtime and I come almost every day
and it's like I see a little more green. First of all when the snow goes then the first shoots
pop out and some of the flowers that bloom almost with the snow there. I don't know. It's just sort
of like the message of hope and renewal every spring and I come every day and I watch the leaves
coming out more and more and then there's that there's that special time in the spring where
you look and it's just the faintest sort of haze of green with just all the time in the leaves
coming in. I don't know. There's something about that that I just really like. When I'm walking along
a trail, a particularly beautiful trail, of course I think about the one who created all this. I
think about God and I talk to God and I tell him what's on my heart and it's just it's just
wonderful. I think there's just something that God wants us to experience as we spend quiet time
in the woods for those of us who are people of faith. I became a believer in God at age 30
after many years of not believing and I know that he speaks to me in a very special way when I'm
here alone in the woods walking with him and with myself. I think everybody should walk in the woods.
You know, God made them and there's everything he put in there, birds and little animals to
thrill us and feed us. You know, when I just let all those things, the visual and the sound effects
of the singing of the birds and the little noises, it just, I don't know, it just renews me in a way
that nothing else really can in that particular way. I love every part about the woods. All my
issues and all my worries just seem to vanish.
