Anything that gets you out of a chair, presuming you are able bodied. Gardening, woodworking, tinkering, sewing, painting, writing, welding. Granted a couple of those are chair bound tasks. Day hiking. Good odds there are trails near your domicile that you don’t even know about.
Or get the discs. Or shop the megathread. Libby. Podcasts.
Most libraries can be a pick up point for books anywhere in the state library system. It’s a website, not something that can happen through Libby. In addition, the hard copy inventory in libraries is often quite different from the Libby fare.
These are wonderful suggestions, I wholeheartedly agree and would like to add something else: nothing! I genuinely recommend dedicating some time for de-stimulating your mind.
If you’re accustomed to the taste of sugary snacks and drinks, you become desensitized to how cloyingly sweet they are. Go without for a day, a week, a month and they start to become unpalatable.
The same thing happens with mental stimulation in our world. It’s empowering to be content to sit and observe your surroundings, even for just a minute or two at a time. It’s like taking back control over your brain. Being bored is good for you!
This is the lure of the single family home in a rural location. The sounds. The sound of other people is grating. It’s something you don’t really realize until you have the opportunity to not hear it. Then, a hum of mild stress that’s always on in the background shuts off. It may be that people have to do something to drown out the stress hum of shared walls and the sounds of other people intruding.
There’s also an American attachment to yards for this reason. The fire pit. Midwesterners are big on this, in towns and neighborhoods. Sure, it’s a practical item for cleaning up yard debris, but it’s also an excuse to do nothing. Sit by the fire and that’s pretty much it. The sound is lovely. You’re watching the fire, “for safety”, but it’s more than that.
What do you propose as an alternative?
Anything that gets you out of a chair, presuming you are able bodied. Gardening, woodworking, tinkering, sewing, painting, writing, welding. Granted a couple of those are chair bound tasks. Day hiking. Good odds there are trails near your domicile that you don’t even know about.
Or get the discs. Or shop the megathread. Libby. Podcasts.
Most libraries can be a pick up point for books anywhere in the state library system. It’s a website, not something that can happen through Libby. In addition, the hard copy inventory in libraries is often quite different from the Libby fare.
These are wonderful suggestions, I wholeheartedly agree and would like to add something else: nothing! I genuinely recommend dedicating some time for de-stimulating your mind.
If you’re accustomed to the taste of sugary snacks and drinks, you become desensitized to how cloyingly sweet they are. Go without for a day, a week, a month and they start to become unpalatable.
The same thing happens with mental stimulation in our world. It’s empowering to be content to sit and observe your surroundings, even for just a minute or two at a time. It’s like taking back control over your brain. Being bored is good for you!
This is the lure of the single family home in a rural location. The sounds. The sound of other people is grating. It’s something you don’t really realize until you have the opportunity to not hear it. Then, a hum of mild stress that’s always on in the background shuts off. It may be that people have to do something to drown out the stress hum of shared walls and the sounds of other people intruding.
There’s also an American attachment to yards for this reason. The fire pit. Midwesterners are big on this, in towns and neighborhoods. Sure, it’s a practical item for cleaning up yard debris, but it’s also an excuse to do nothing. Sit by the fire and that’s pretty much it. The sound is lovely. You’re watching the fire, “for safety”, but it’s more than that.
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The American mind cannot comprehend the outside or the book
Hurr durr murica fat an dum. Very creative and original thought you just had.
vile missed rhyming opportunity
Uh oh, they’re waking up…
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