The Blucher Nature Park, tucked right in behind the downtown of Corpus Christi, is a gorgeously designed and landscaped masterpiece of nature right within the city.

I encourage you to let it be a relatively electronics-free zone. See if you can put all your attention on nature while you are in the park - and forgo any typical habits of checking your email or listening to music or podcasts or talking on the phone.

If you are walking with a friend with whom your habit is to chat as you walk, see if you can instead throw all your attention on nature while you are walking - and try to restrain your comments to things like

“Did you hear that bird?” or

”Hey, look at this!”

My deep gratitude to whatever group poured so much love and attention into this park.

The one change I would suggest is to eliminate the oppressive middle-class ordinance about no smoking in the park. If there had been more poor or working-class people on the team that created the park, I doubt this particular rule would have been included.

Please change it to,

“Please dispose of any cigarette butts in the blue barrels you will find spaced within the park.”

Those blue barrels are almost an intrusion in the park, but they do the job. I have seen only a few tiny instances of litter in the park - and disposed of those myself.

The park is right next to the stunning and wonderful La Retama Central Library. I encouraged patrons of the library to take frequent breaks from their mental work to return to the more nurturing world of nature.