Cabin Fever

With the "official" start of Winter, let us introduce CABIN FEVER !
I been loving the Instagram posts and words of this gal. Her name is Rachel Pohl. Check out her words and art !

Rachel Pohl https://www.instagram.com/rachel.pohl/
Website: https://www.rachelpohlart.com/

artwork by Rachel pohl 

What terrifies me more than any other (irrational) fear is becoming numb to my life and distant from the beauty all around me. Missing sunrise and sunsets - daylight in general - has become all too common for me lately, for many of us. In past weeks, almost daily I’ve peered through my basement window at a glowing sunset sky with a raging anxiety welling up inside of me.
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The past week, I’ve escaped my basement for one our craziest several days on record. We flew to Jackson to work with some of our long-time idols, then right to California to speak at Facebook HQ, and I now find myself on the side of a mountain painting above the Bay Area.
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Yesterday, we hiked a few miles into a cabin tucked in the forest a several thousand feet above the sea. This place is special to us, because it’s where @charles_post and I got engaged. Yesterday, the hike in was gorgeous but lacked a view due to thick fog. But right as the sun was setting, the clouds broke and we were greeted with the most breathtaking vista; rolling inversion clouds, pink light, and Douglas firs rising from the fog. Then as darkness fell, we sat together beneath a sky full of stars, finally drifting back to our mountainside cabin for a restful sleep after we’d had our fill of this healing magic.
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This morning the sunrise actually made me cry. And not just because it was so beautiful, but because I’d been so missing my favorite show on earth - that of light and clouds, color, birdsong, and fragrant earthy smells.
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Though my anxiety over not being outside isn’t fun, I’m grateful for the motivation it gives me to keep living big. My desire to strive for these experiences is amplified by those 17 hour work days, and that raging fear becomes a fierce determination to live the life of my dreams. I feel eternally grateful for the beauty around all of us that keeps me going, and the ability to experience it as frequently as I do.
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