your cheeks?

•
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

- Henry David Thoreau, “The Maine Woods,” Ktaadn, Pt. 6 (1848)

To be a part of it all, and not dive headfirst into life’s stream and drink deep, is not to live. If you have not felt the wind on your cheeks in awhile, what have your cheeks been doing?

•