Marijean F. Silver • Reader Submitted • April 30, 2009
Get ready for the Fifth Annual World Nude Gardening Day (WNGD)! People across the globe are encouraged, on Saturday, May 2, 2009 to tend their portion of the world’s garden clothed as nature intended.
Why garden naked? First of all, it’s fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude.
Moreover, our culture needs to move toward a healthy sense of both body acceptance and our relation to the natural environment. Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us–even if only for those few sunkissed minutes–that we can be honest with who we are as humans and as part of this planet.
“The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.”
- John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club
So what should you do? First of all, on May 2, 2008 find an opportunity to get naked and do some gardening. Do so alone, with friends, with family, with your gardening club, or with any other group collected for that purpose. Do it inside your house, in your back yard (may want to share your plans with the neighbors first!), on a hiking trail (nudity is not illegal on Federal land) or at a nearby nudist resort (Turtle Lake Resort). Just get naked and make your part of the botanical world a healthier and more attractive place.
Secondly, tell someone about your experience. No one owns this event, so it does not really matter whom you tell, but tell someone . Tell your friends about your day of naked gardening; write down what you thought of it and email it to your local newspaper; post your thoughts and images onto an Internet site; submit stories and photos to your club newsletter.
Thirdly, make naturism a part of your life. Once you experience the freedom of gardening nude, try skinnydipping. The naturist lifestyle is one that brings one closer to the environment, reduces stress and tension and can be an important part of a healthy lifestyle.
For more information, contact Bill Schroer, Board Member of the Naturist Action Committee, 269-963-4874, 269-986-2322 (cell) e-mail: naturist18a@gmail.com
Pasted from <http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20090430/NEIGHBORHOODS01/904300337>
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