Okay, so I felt kind of proud that we created a puddle and had great fun on Mud Day. And then Bishnu sent this photograph from the Mud Day celebration in Nepal. An elephant is quite humbling! Isn’t it wonderful to see what people made of this idea around the world? The fact that thousands of people in many different places did something they wouldn’t usually have done on June 29 because we as World Forum and Nature Action Collaborative for Children declared it to be a day of enjoying mud is powerful. I can’t wait for International Mud Day, June 29, 2012.

This morning I was thinking about how this day has changed me. Scott and I were talking around the mud puddle about how there are so many things that we just don’t think about–like playing in the mud. Sure, mud is messy, but it’s so easy and so delightful and playful and handy, and so very important. It isn’t that we reject ideas as much as they just don’t come to mind. And so we need others, like Bishnu and Gillian, to make us think and help us be.

Really, I feel like Mud Day is more than a day–it’s almost a way of life. Nature enters our psyches and hearts in such a way that it becomes the new normal. And every day holds within it the pursuit of play and delight outdoors.