Ahhhhhhhhhh, peace, sanity & contentment!

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I posted this under "General News" instead of "General" .
If Anyone can explain how to shift it, I'd be grateful ...

LOL - ask a Mod.

Hmmm - nirvana indeed, Msolga me lovey - you were utterly in the present!

Gardening used to do that for me - when I wasn't engaged in brutal battle with my cottoneaster tree. It IS such a joy, no, to make plants happy - to see the worm casts becoming more and more each day, as more and more happy wormies come - to see the flowers, the buds, the leaves - the insects living their lives in a world you have created - the birds come - to watch one's compost grow - one's soil become richer and richer. Aaaaaaaah - I miss it.

Reading sometimes does it for me - really good conversation - sex - running a dinner party - you know, ensuring comfort and fun for each guest, setting the little top aspin and watching it hum....I wish meditation did it more - music sometimes - but - I have SUCH a busy mind - it pops and fizzes and crackles with ideas and thoughts and ANXIETIES!!! It is hard for me to reach that spot.

Well done!

Gardening does it for me as well Olga. As the weather begins to get warmer, I get these soothing thoughts of being out in my garden :-D

It seems I am as passionate about gardening as you are, however, it's winter here and gardening is out of the question. In the meantime I can sit quite a long spell at the piano and get lost in the music.

Maybe that's one of my problems. I can't find anything that does that for me. Not one damned thing.

If anyone could make their flowers happy, I knew it would be Msolga.

Have you tried gardening Wilso?

gardening does it for me too, usually. Reading does it, if I'm really into the book. Cleaning sometimes does it, oddly. Making/creating always does it. When I was doing those pastels, I spent the better part of 3 days in that state.

I have so many:

Watching fire dance
Watching people and wondering why they do what they do
Feeling the warmth of the sun
Reading a good book
Watching any repetitive yet random movement
Sleeping :wink:
Playing with silly putty
Writing down my thoughts
Thinking

I know they sound simple and cheesy, but those things really make me content.

I just see gardening as hard work.

gardening used to be fun when I actually had a yard...in an apartment right now.

Let's see....
Drawing or painting is definitley top of the list
watching fire (go, individual!)
watching a stream gurgle by
reading
writing
playing tag with my cats
dancing
sitting at Starbucks and making up stories about the people I see...

All of these can sweep me away for hours.

Isn't it amazing how, sometimes, the simplest things really struggle to steal our eyes?

Welcome to A2K Aldistar.

I especially agree on drawing, although now that I do it for work I don't do it as a relaxation thing. When I first took drawing classes, I remember barely getting myself to go to the class which was scheduled a couple of hours after a typically tiring day's work, sort of frowning my way into the building from the big parking garage, and ... leaving again in three hours which would have passed in an apparent four minutes. I would get totally involved, a very satisfying thing.

Nothing right now....but I want to get back into pottery. I did a bit of it as a child and it seems such a contenting thing to do. That and needlepoint. I took that in a crafts class in junior high.

Watching a woman sleep contentedly beside me. That is pure bliss.

Oh kickycan....there are so many responses running through my head. But I'll be good and keep my mouth shut.

Getting lost in a good book is also great.

Caprice, don't let all these people know what a horndog I am!

I also used to play the guitar, but I haven't played for awhile. I remember though that anytime I couldn't sleep, if I picked up the guitar and just played something, anything, it would totally calm me and I'd be off to restful sleep in minutes.

I'm thinkin' the surprise would be lost on them kickycan.