 Our lifestyle is just so accelerated but being out here just for a moment you can forget about the pressures of life. We're at the lovely Fort Worth Botanic Garden inside the Japanese Garden today for our diversity and inclusion monthly program and this is our Asian influence program so it only fits right to be in the Japanese Garden. A lot of the trees are Japanese maples. All of the pavilions are based on Shinto temples and then if you get time go take a look at the Makoshi Shrine which is an authentic shrine. It makes me feel very calm. It has like a soothing effect. You can feel the coolness the evaporative effect of the large trees. Just relax calm. I've been taking yoga with the city as well so I've started practicing some of those breathing techniques and just really enjoying it. I think the first word that came to my mind was peace tranquility relaxation leave your carers at the door you it's sort of like coming to a sacred area. They gave us a tourist I came in that the Japanese culture they they connect with nature and the sounds of the wind the trees and how we become part of that. It's different it's interesting and you can open your mind to other things. I noticed the different crafts the different music the the artistic expressions oh something that sometimes we're not exposed to only on tv and when you're exposed to it in person it's different. I like the interpretive I guess styles that the garden actually has also like the the incorporation of like the fish you know and the water features. The Japanese Garden is part of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. For hours tours and tea ceremony information visit fwbg.org