LIVE HIKE + Mic

Hey, Jason here. Having a great day today. It's Saturday, July— not even July, June something. Sorry, I'm just taking a walk out here. It's raining. On my way home from a meeting, I figured I'd stop and just do a little hike and Mike. Uh, so stick with me for a few minutes as we take a walk, and I am bunny spotting. I actually see two. Right now. I love walking through here. I love looking for rabbits. I've been seeing a lot, but I kind of hate disturbing them. But there's one up here on the left, real tiny guy, and then there's one right here on the right. So, um, you'll probably see them hop as I continue to walk. Hope you're having a good day today. All right, I'm going to be quiet and look at the bunnies here. The cute one's right there on the left. He just scurried across. Hopefully you saw him. Hey, Mr. Bunny, I'm not gonna bother you. Hope you're having a good day. Keep walking. All right, we've seen two, we've seen two. I'm gonna let it be, I'm not gonna get closer. Good to see you, hope you're doing well. So for my Inspired Life fans, I know I have not been sketching live, um, this past week. I think I did it one night. I've been working on a project, architecture project, that's been taking me into the night. So I will be back live streaming. I'll be on tonight live streaming, doing some sketching. I kind of miss it. And hope you guys will join me. So tonight around 9 o'clock PM Eastern time, join me here on the Inspired Life for some livestream sketching. I'm itching to do some NYC sketching. Oh yeah, oh yeah. But if you want to stick with me, I'm going to be walking around here for a few minutes. Again, I am unprepared. I didn't bring my gimbal. Just decided to stop here on my way home from a meeting. And you get to appreciate the shaky camera and all. I love walking in the rain. Also, don't touch them. Thank you, Edie. I never, I never touch any wildlife. Yeah, I wouldn't. Good advice. But yeah, I definitely wouldn't even try to, you know, I got to respect them. I think let's do a little Hiking Mike and talk about respect. Thanks, Edie, for the, uh, setup. So let me just spin around. Now you just see rabbits here. I haven't only saw those two. Let's walk down here. So, um, yeah, like respecting nature, let's talk about that. Let's riff on it for a minute. Really, really good point. Like if you see a deer in the wild or rabbits Ducks, I don't care what, what it is, we gotta, you know, let's respect their space. Um, you know, being out here in this park, this isn't a petting zoo, and that's a whole different story, but this is their home. I am now walking in someone else's home right now, so I'm a guest, right? I think when we're walking in nature, walking in parks, we need to remember that we are a guest in that space. We don't own it. A good example is parking, parking at a public park. So the other day, um, there's a couple different parking areas. I parked in one spot, no issues, but the other spot I usually park in couple— there's a— probably fit like 6 or 7 cars, and a couple people decided to park so that no one else could use the parking lot. Literally 2 cars took up the spaces for 7 cars. And that's just another example of just being kind of respectful for the environment around you and the people around you, right? Um, 100% I like to come down here and hear the running water. It's kind of overgrown, but let's see if we can hear it. Another obvious way to respect being outside in a public park is Litter, right? Litter, garbage. Let's listen to the raccoons. The raccoons are chatty. I don't see any, but I hear them. Let's see if we can see any up in this tree. It's pretty close. Definitely don't touch raccoons. I hear them. I can't see them, but I'm sure they see me because they stopped. It's fun listening to raccoons kind of chatter back and forth. I always wonder what they're saying. All right, let's take a walk down this path. Oh, we got some wild berries here. I remember as a kid we would, we'd go in the woods and pick those berries and eat them. So they are, they are edible. Wow, it's really overgrown. That's another cool thing about being out in nature, just seeing how nature transforms through time, through seasons. Right? Just seeing how the trees grow, the grasses grow, the colors that happen. And right, we're part of nature. We transform, we grow, we change with time. We can't stop it. It's just simply part of who we are, right? Just part of simply being human, growing, adapting, changing with the conditions, the weather, the time, the environment, the circumstance. Sometimes we try to fight that growth. We try to want to— we want to stay locked in where we are. But growth is essential, just part of, part of what we do. Yeah, that's right. That's exactly what the raccoons are saying. The annoying dude with the cell phone, he's here again. I love that. That's so funny. I hope they see me as a nice guest. Oh, bunny sighting straight ahead on this path. Bunny number 3. Gonna switch hands here. It's got a light rain happening. I love walking in the rain, just the sounds. It's stopping. Oh, he's gone. Mr. Bunny went bye-bye. All right, let's keep walking. We're gonna head up the path and go out through the— come out to the clearing, I think. I love watching— I love looking at wildflowers. Alright, I'm gonna head up through the clearing. Sound cool? It's all grown in here. Huh, we got this, we got this. We'll use the, uh, deer path through here. You see the deer come through here. All right, let's head up to the clearing. Okay, almost to the top here. All right, we're going to exit out to the clearing. Alright, here we are, my favorite view. I love coming out to the clearing here. Check out that sky. A little bit of gray, some light peeking through the clouds. He says, are you ever afraid? Um, that's a good question. So I'm— if I was to be afraid of anything walking here It would be bears. It would be running seeing a bear. Um, I like walking here in the fall and the winter when the foliage is down and I can see all around me. Oh, look at the deer! Hello! Hello. We're going to give that deer some space. Hello. Hi, beautiful deer. Oh, he ran away. But yeah, only when it's, um, all overgrown like this, I don't really like walking too deep by myself. That's why I kind of came out to the clearing quickly. But in the fall, I have no issues. In winter— All right, let's walk to my view here and we'll end up. That was a beautiful deer, I don't know if you saw it. All right, we're going to come to the clearing and wrap up. So yeah, thanks for joining me on my little walk today. Remember, I think the big deal or big lesson today is, um, just be respectful when you're out in nature, out in parks. Respect the environment, respect the animals around you, give them space. Don't try to pet the bunnies. Um, we'll walk out through Middle-earth. We're going down to Middle-earth here. Just be respectful, guys. And I think that's a lesson that applies just every day, everywhere in life. All right, so my goal is to livestream sketch tonight around 9 PM Eastern time, so hopefully I'll be back on later. And if you like this, give me a thumbs up, subscribe if you like these kind of walks and talks. Or if you like New York City walks and talks or architectural sketching, love for you to follow me there. All right, we're at Middle Earth. Until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and embrace imperfection.