Episode #003 Feel Good Questions To Ask Your Loved Ones About Trees Use these questions, if you like, to ask your grown kids to think about. It will moves the focus to outside and may feel like a gift. In this episode, I ask my boys, finance professionals in twenties, now living in London questions about […]
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Boost Your Outside Mindset By Protecting Pollinators with Kim Eierman
PODCAST Episode #005 Kim Eierman is an Environmental Horticulturist specializing in ecological landscapes and native plants. In this episode Kim gives us easy and new ways to think about helping our pollinators and native plants on our decks, patios, in our yards, and gardens. Hi this is Verla from Your Outside Mindset Show where I […]
Retired Canadian Ambassador Shares Outside Mindset Tips
#004 – Podcast Episode In this episode I interview my sister a retired Canadian Ambassador who lives in Ottawa, Canada. Patricia Fortier now works on for profit and non-profit Boards. One of the for profit boards is Greenlane Renewables based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. As she explains this innovative start up is converting the […]
Covid-19 Virus: Your Outside Mindset Opportunity
I could hardly wait for my planned trip to London. I would stay with my two sons, who are both living and working there. During the week I would attend my first London Book Fair. On the weekend we would go to a lovely cottage in the Cotswold. Here we would walk and wander in […]
BE NICE TO YOURSELF: GO OUTSIDE
Do you need to feel better? What can you do about that right now? You don’t have to wait for your next vacation or the weekend. Invite yourself outside to sit on a bench in the park for a few minutes or for a short stroll. Go outside. Get yourself out there. Go no matter […]
KEEP AN OUTSIDE MINDSET WHEN YOU TRAVEL AFTER 60
Are you in your mid-60s? Do you have a few chronic diseases? This combination changes the travel equation. Why not look at how you like to spend your days at home and apply this to travel? At my home, in small town Manitoba, Canada, I let the days unfold. I don’t make big plans. I […]
The Art Of The Stay
Have you ever looked at Booking dot com or Air B and B and mused about renting something entirely different for a few days? I live in an old house in the country so I do – often. When is the last time you considered the artistic design of the place you book for the […]
ETERNALLY FRACTAL: THE REAL CONNECTION BETWEEN TREE BRANCHES, WRINKLES, AND GEOMETRY
Have you ever looked at your wrinkles in a magnifying mirror? Have you noticed they’re a rather complex network of teeny tiny lines that branch off into even smaller ridges? Have you wondered why complex figures fascinate our minds so much? There is a curious scientific explanation, and it has to do with fractals. But […]
A Million Reasons To See Trees With New Eyes While In Naples, Florida
If you are spending time (with or without chronic disease) in Naples, Florida you may be unaware of why they feel so darn good most of the time. You may think it is the good company, the warm temperature, the beach, the tennis, or the golf. And this may be. There are another million […]
4 Unexpected Tips for Living Longer With Chronic Disease: I Want Trees Please
We all know that we are not going to live forever. But in our sixties the harsh reality of our own expiration date hits home. The good news is that if you are 67 years old have no chronic diseases, you can expect to live another 22.6 years. You will likely live to see your 90thbirthday. […]