I just returned from Colombia, and let me tell you—it was medicine. The kind you can’t bottle. The beaches were breathtaking, but what moved me most was my time in Palenque with the indigenous community and their medicine man. These beautiful souls live in deep harmony with the land—growing their own food, making medicine from plants, and carrying ancestral wisdom that has sustained them for generations. Their way of life is slow, sacred, and rooted in deep respect for the Earth.

Being in their presence reminded me how far we’ve drifted from that connection. So many of us are caught in hustle culture, dependent on convenience, disconnected from our food, our bodies, and the natural rhythms we were meant to live by. But here’s the good news: we can always return. Nature is never closed to us. She’s always waiting.

This Great Outdoors issue is an invitation to come back home—to the land, to our breath, to the healing that comes when we reconnect with the world outside our walls. Whether it’s walking barefoot on the earth, harvesting herbs from your garden, hiking a wooded trail, or simply sitting under a tree in silence, nature has a way of grounding us, softening us, and reminding us who we really are.

I hope the stories in these pages stir something in you. A longing. A remembering. A nudge to make space for the outdoors—not just for recreation, but for restoration. For reverence. For joy.

The medicine is here. It always has been. We just have to choose it again.

With love