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| Connect people to meaningful outdoor experiences |
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Have we changed?
Nostalgia is dangerous and wonderful. Glamorizing the past—glossing over the warts and blemishes—allows us to imagine an ideal world, and then strive to create it. We imagine our parents were more active, healthier, perhaps happier, than we think most people are today. In a near-mythical golden past, people went on picnics every Sunday, hiked and canoed all day, and wiled away the hours in museums. Public parks were busy places, and kids grew up learning self-reliance and cooperative play free of the controls of safety concerns, organized, parent-supervised activities.
Perhaps the boomer generation looks at Gen X and younger and thinks, “People these days are too urban, too wired, too dependent on rules, too … not like what was.” Younger adults look at their lives and families and don’t even see the technology and the always-on lifestyle that defines their generation. It’s just … life. They encounter life, and engage in topics like environmentalism, to the same depth as their parents, but with different methods.
But our choices define our lives, even if we’re not paying attention when we make them. How we live. How we play. What we teach our kids about Oregon’s outdoors and history. As we're rushing headlong into this future created by today’s choices, we can stop … just for moment … to make our choices intentional.
- How do you spend your free time? What do you get out of your free time?
- What should you be able to do in the park next door? What about the place you travel for a couple hours to reach in the summertime? What favorite pastime do you wish you could do at a public park or in the out-of-doors?
- How can kids today learn from the out-of-doors in the out-of-doors? How can parks help?
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