Join in a forest bathing adventure as a young girl helps her father to
leave his cell phone behind and embrace the sights, smells, and sounds
of the natural world around him.
On a sticky summer day, when it is too hot to do anything, Kayla
suggests a forest bath. Daddy needs a little more convincing, but soon
they are heading into the forest.
Kayla takes in the sights, sounds, and smells of the natural world
around her. Cinnamon fern and bunchberry grow in the shade. The packed
dirt under Kayla's feet is hard and the sunlight through the branches is
soft. She breathes a symphony of scents--soil, sedge, and moss--and
finds a stream with an icy current. A black-throated green warbler
trills in the distance zee-zee-zee-zoo-zee.
As the worries and distractions of the day melt away, Kayla and her
father relax and enjoy the pleasure of forest bathing--and of being
together.