“One of my knacks is finding activities that require hard work and I enjoy, but generally pay poorly”
A perfect description of my writing habit, Jesse! But these are of course the very the activities that generate lots of FLOW with all its health benefits. So let’s keep on with all that! 👍
I find pure joy in a woodstove lit once at the season's beginning and allowed to die out at the season's end. The wall heaters have never been turned on since we moved here. I find a similar joy in shoveling, growing tomatoes, thrashing wheat, or even just taking a walk. Is it easier to touch the app on my phone to raise the house temperature or buy a tomato, loaf of bread, or hire a guy to shovel? Most definitely but self sufficiency, personal strength, a (different) purposefulness feels more important. Seek distance from the unreal - the pristine fireplace, as an example, poke in the coals, feel the heat, gather thoughts in the darkness between fire and forest.
I agree with all of this, Stacy. What a marvel it must have been 200 yrs ago to be a writer. Busy by necessity with many of these chores, and no clever algorithm attempting to snatch away our attention.
Brb gonna go throw my solostove into the cracks of doom.
Now I feel like a jerk😉
“One of my knacks is finding activities that require hard work and I enjoy, but generally pay poorly”
A perfect description of my writing habit, Jesse! But these are of course the very the activities that generate lots of FLOW with all its health benefits. So let’s keep on with all that! 👍
I appreciate that view, Baird. It’s a reminder about flow, what brings contentment, and I’m not the only one who feels this way 🤣
I snorted my mouthful of tea in reading this comment of enlightenment.
The ultimate compliment! Thanks Stacy!
I find pure joy in a woodstove lit once at the season's beginning and allowed to die out at the season's end. The wall heaters have never been turned on since we moved here. I find a similar joy in shoveling, growing tomatoes, thrashing wheat, or even just taking a walk. Is it easier to touch the app on my phone to raise the house temperature or buy a tomato, loaf of bread, or hire a guy to shovel? Most definitely but self sufficiency, personal strength, a (different) purposefulness feels more important. Seek distance from the unreal - the pristine fireplace, as an example, poke in the coals, feel the heat, gather thoughts in the darkness between fire and forest.
I agree with all of this, Stacy. What a marvel it must have been 200 yrs ago to be a writer. Busy by necessity with many of these chores, and no clever algorithm attempting to snatch away our attention.
I think writers 200 years ago got more writing done ...