I was a few paragraphs into reporting on a few lovely hours I spent with the founder and president of the Community Ecology Institute, Chiara D’Amore, when it hit me–I was inside. You dolt, Colleen, I thought! I should have been writing this from the outdoors, a bench in a local park, perhaps. A bird would alight on my shoulder, and I’d smile at it. As I looked down at my computer screen, a rainbow would shoot across the sky behind me. I’d take a deep breath in, inhaling the a slightly spicy freesia scent, as Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons played and…okay, … Read more