Every once in a while we need a check on our mindless patterns of passing through life, taking everything it affords us for granted. We are so consumed with regrets about the past and worries about the future that we forget the single greatest gift in our possession, the present moment! We owe ourselves the times when we just slow down and mindfully appreciate the plethora of gifts around us, whether in the form of nature, people or material things.

Listen to what the noted short film maker Louie Schwartzberg has to say about cultivating the perspective of being grateful to the gifts of nature and life that we get to experience every day.

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