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Silver Linings
lighter:
BEAR HUNT! So perfect for this area.... will suggest it on the message board and hope it takes off.
So glad to read more silver linings, guys.
Lighter
Hopalong:
When you post it, this is the story that inspired the idea (there's a storybook....).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI
CB123:
Hops, I absolutely LOVED your post! What a lot of wonderful community connections. I love the bear idea--I've heard of some people putting up rainbows too. Isnt it amazing what people are doing now that there is time to plan and then enjoy it? I was struck by all the people wanting to walk after you wishing for this for years. I think we are all way too busy and stressed. I wonder if we will have changed things on a permanent basis by the end of this?
I'm still glowing after reading your post.
CB
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: CB123 on March 28, 2020, 11:25:48 PM ---Hops, I absolutely LOVED your post! What a lot of wonderful community connections. I love the bear idea--I've heard of some people putting up rainbows too. Isnt it amazing what people are doing now that there is time to plan and then enjoy it? I was struck by all the people wanting to walk after you wishing for this for years. I think we are all way too busy and stressed. I wonder if we will have changed things on a permanent basis by the end of this?
I'm still glowing after reading your post.
CB
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I hope things change more permanently after this. I think many people with health problems already appreciate the value of community, companionship, time spent with other people, as well as obviously appreciating health care and all the things that support that. It would be nice if people are able to keep in place some of the changes that have come about through this xx
Hopalong:
For the first time in several years, the garden called me.
My usual springtime depression has not hit and the pandemic
has placed me back in the present, more tuned in to how incredibly
lucky I am to have the capacity to grow some food.
I hired a friend's son to do the heavy part of preparing the soil
for planting, adding big bags of compost, readying the dirt smooth
and rich.
And then I soaked some year-old seeds overnight to help them germinate,
and M and I planted both beds (4 x 6) with veggies. So far: spinach, kale,
chard, beets, radishes and carrots. Save a sunny end for cantaloupe and
watermelon. Just one or two of each for those, since they'll spill out of the
bed and cover an area behind my little back patio.
It brings me joy. Next project is my cluttered neglected side patio, which
is a safe and lovely place to sit with friends (at EIGHT feet, to keep M calm)
and enjoy the beautiful weather.
I think the real silver lining is being driven out of my torpor and back into
nature and its healing energy. That, plus the actual danger meaning that
I'm more grateful and aware of being alive. What a gift to be here, to see
the wind blowing through my crazy mulberry trees and how the leaves dance.
Hugs
Hops
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