Are we ready to ease stay-at-home restrictions? Will the coronavirus spread? This is a concern, of course, but there’s a bigger one tugging at my heart, my mind, lungs and my senses.
Never in my adult life did I believe I would see Salt Lake City as beautiful, as clear, and as quiet as it has been since mid-March. Experiencing our city in its natural splendor has been the best part of my retreat from society.
With fewer cars on the road, fewer planes in the sky and less industrial pollution, we can breathe deeply and know the air is rich with nutrients and oxygen. It is vital to our health and well-being.
To see the improvement of our air quality happen so fast makes me realize that although we are the ones who caused the problem in the first place, we were able to fix it by leaving it alone. We did it.
I never would have believed we could do it, but we did it.
In just two months, Nature began to regain its balance. By supporting nature to thrive, maybe it will show us how to get back to our own nature and our own balance, the very definition of good health.
Many, many people have found peace and solace in the outdoors during this spring. Please, please, everyone, keep close in mind and heart how wonderful this time has been for our environment and what a gift it has been to experience it. The nature we are so lucky to have surrounding us is the very thing that defines our great quality of life.
After the pandemic passes, we will have a choice in how we reintegrate ourselves back into life in society. Please choose actions that show we care.
Jennifer Floor, Salt Lake City
