Nikki Reed

Nikki Reed Instagram – It’s the smallest hands that will change the world. Little discoveries for little fingers that we often don’t realize are so impactful. All things sensory, the first lick of a lemon, the vibrant colors of a bird, the feeling of the soil between toes. These are the things that shape us. Being outside, being present, being creative, being bored. Growing up all I cared about was animals. I would give anything to be loaded up into the car and driven the hours long round trip to my Grandmother’s barn just to see her horses for 5 minutes if I could. To smell that new grass on the hillside from last week’s rain, to catch a barn kitty for even a moment’s snuggle. To collect duck eggs from her muddy coop. Being outdoors shaped me, and as I look at life now compared to then, I start to worry that we have somehow forgotten the importance of doing nothing. Of playing outside in the mud. Of being bored. Yesterday, in an interview, I was asking how I feel about this new direction we are heading, and I went down a rabbit hole of memories thinking about how different my childhood, most of our childhoods looked when we place them side by side with where we are now. It got me thinking, are we in the chapter of the return? Did we spend a few decades figuring out how much technology doesn’t serve us, only to remember how much we love picking a fresh apple, or playing in the mud? Have we gone too far, only to turn back around? I sure hope so…I really do. 🤍🌿
(Swipe to the end to see a self portrait masterpiece from 30 years ago, and my earliest memories at the farm where it all began…) | Posted on 08/Feb/2025 21:30:05