When I was a little girl, I would tell my parents that I wanted to be a farmer when I grew up. I wanted to have horses, to have acres and acres of land, to work with my hands and wear overalls. This phase, I would say, lasted longer than my wanting to be a lifeguard or a vet. Then, somehow, I veered towards science. I wanted to be an astronomer, an engineer, a brain scientist.
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Eventually, I did become a scientist and a true city girl. I LOVE cities around the world, their pulse, their universal "formula", their architecture and cacophony. Despite that, I've always carried a little country-girl inside of me.
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You've probably heard me say how I still want to be around horses, to make my own wine, to work with the earth and to learn its wise secrets. Some of my most peaceful moments were while living on a vineyard at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy (while being a scientist and living in a city, so yay for always combining all passions!).
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Yesterday, after a particularly difficult couple of weeks, my heart burst out of my chest. I knew in the morning I needed to run off to the countryside. I needed to breathe, to be surrounded by things that mattered more than me, than my doubts, than social media.
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I spent the day picking berries, apples and prunes. I walked down rows and rows of vines, inspecting the grapes, trusting that they will someday make great wine, after a whole scientific process and much patience. I watched horses and cows graze in vast pastures, watched alpacas run in circles with that silly smile they always have on their face, and witnessed my own shoulders and thoughts relax. Finally.
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Does a day in nature do you good, too?
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