Marsia's Diary

Agree your garden does sound glorious. The more I read I would love to live there. Although my garden is a bit of a jungle too right now. It's also crammed full of blackberries which I must go and pick now.
 
I didn’t even weigh in today Marsia - couldn’t face it.
 
Hey Marsia, your garden does sound great! I really like the idea of a tended jungle.

LaMa is right a dull chainsaw is dangerous, I know and have the scars to prove it. Dull chainsaws are less predictable and more likely to bounce back at you, when I was 18 I got 72 stitches in the face from one. Sharpening isn't that hard to learn, and any chainsaw place can sharpen one for you, figure it out and get it sharpened! I'll send pictures if you need the motivation.

Marsia said:
I am at 176.4, so 3.5 pound loss so far.
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That's great! Even if its regained weight loss its still good. How much more do you want to lose?

Folks are right to worry about social security, its a big problem in most developing countries. It seems to me the underlying problem is a shift in our age structures. As we have become healthier we live longer, and we have started having fewer children. I think both are good things, it should make for a more sustainable and happier population. Problem is it makes the old retirement model unsustainable. When social security got its start in the US we had a very large young population feeding into a program that supported only a few retirees, very different today. I don't have a solution, just the observation.
 
Rob it’s the exact same here . That’s why they reckon we won’t have it in years to come .
Marsia your projects sounds fantastic .
A garden is never finished is it !
 
Marsia said:
I've been feeling so happy about my art lately. I had viewed doing art as a form of providing entertainment for other people - an interesting picture to look at. But it is so much more than that. For me it's about following an impulse to create and how that gets you more in touch with who you are and what you enjoy and what makes you interested in life. I realized it really doesn't matter what you do, whether it's doing art, gardening, going to the gym, making a beautiful meal with little red pepper garnishes (which makes me happy to read about!), it's about listening to the little voice that tells you to go explore life!
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Aw, what a lovely sentiment. You're such a nice person Marsia. That really shines through. :)
 
Marsia said:
I've been feeling so happy about my art lately. I had viewed doing art as a form of providing entertainment for other people - an interesting picture to look at. But it is so much more than that. For me it's about following an impulse to create and how that gets you more in touch with who you are and what you enjoy and what makes you interested in life. I realized it really doesn't matter what you do, whether it's doing art, gardening, going to the gym, making a beautiful meal with little red pepper garnishes (which makes me happy to read about!), it's about listening to the little voice that tells you to go explore life!
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I love this, M! It just made me feel happy. I had a day yesterday where I did the things that made me happy. I woke up this morning saying hi to all the plants I repotted & said good morning to the day.
G has learned to sharpen his chainsaw well but needed a friend to show him. He hasn't needed a new chain for more than a year. I'm sure you could learn easily.
Your next-door neighbour sounds like a right pain in the butt. Perhaps you could suggest to her that she could help. Is it the verge or nature strip in front of your place that needs to be trimmed so that she can see to drive out safely? I tried to imagine it, but can't.
 
Interesting to hear you see art as something to entertain others. I only ever use it to entertain myself, like children or apes do: painting because I enjoy the process and forgetting about end product as soon as it's done. But that may have more to do with the quality of my end products :p
 
Don’t know that much about Carl Jung, but I love psychology and am always looking up the meanings of my dreams. I must check out that art journal myself!
 
Marsia I'm in awe of what you fit in a day. At the moment my day reads like this , work,drive , lunch , work ,drive , study , dinner , study , potter in garden , shower , bed .
Ok though but I think I might join you in sit ups . How many to get rid of jelly belly .
 
Marsia said:
so I went for an hour walk after this lovely fine rain. We never ever get rain this time of year, so it was a really special, magical morning. I took pictures of lots of backlit weeds in flower and dark redwoods against bright sky which made the foliage fade into the sky and look glowingly blue at the edges.
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That is really poetic. You have a way with words, Marsia.
I'm with Petal. What a day! It also sounds like loads of fun. Singing is meant to be so good for you :)
I read your post at lunchtime, just as I was about to eat 1/2 an avocado. You're even going to skip the good fats? :eek:
 
Marsia said:
... they want your art to be current, sophisticated, political, controversial, cutting edge, novel, and all that. It's a bunch of navel gazing if you aren't wired that way and that stuff isn't meaningful to you, in my opinion. So doing art for myself is sort of a form of rebellion from what I was taught.
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I love it! You do so many really fulfilling-sounding things - art, drumming, singing, seeing the world around you... it's a pleasure to read about.
 
Marsia said:
I am going to do sit-ups and leg lifts when I get home. No more marshmallow belly.
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I hate to be that person but neither sit-ups nor any other ab exercises are going to make your belly tighter. Spot reduction is not a thing in humans. Good posture and losing weight in general are the only things that´ll help you there. The only exception to that rule is folks who are already extremely lean and want to emphasize their sixpack: they may find bulging muscles are more visible.
 
There’s no harm in doing them Petal, I’d say! Lol.

I like what you said about getting fat because you weren’t pursuing your interests. I feel with the play that I am really getting back to what I love and I definitely think I’m eating better because of it. We need to keep our creative minds active!
 
Petal001 said:
LaMa does that mean we don’t need to do any lol . I hate the plank tbh . Used to try and do it .
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Tru posted about the downsides of planking a couple of days ago. I'm fine at doing them but they really aren't functional, interesting, or even just fun, so if I do incorporate them it's some kind of dynamic variation, never a static hold.
 
Hi, Marsia. I have read that singing is really good for your mental health especially. You do sound so happy these days doing more of the things that you love. Your gardening alone would be great exercise, without doing exercises that sound like a painful chore. A garden you can step back & see what you've done :)
 
I really like what people have said about
Marsia said:
... trying to mostly actively entertain myself with healthy things (instead of falling back on passive entertainment like I was doing too much). It works really well for me, and I am a lot, lot happier!
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Emilyrose said:
really getting back to what I love and I definitely think I’m eating better because of it. We need to keep our creative minds active!
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I do have work today, but I'll focus on just-for-fun creativity after - and on thinking about how to deal with the floppy upper arm problem, too. Not planking - maybe some lifting of light weights.
 
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