Gardening
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Gardening
There are some tasks and routines and hobbies and pastimes that seem to be, if not universal, nearly so in providing folks with a type of neurological rhythm that's difficult to achieve via any other mechanism: something that engages our bodies but allows our minds to wander meditatively, once we have the basics down.
Cooking is one such activity (and it serves that purpose for me almost daily), but gardening is another I see referenced and celebrated a lot because of what it offers, beyond the direct outcome of the work performed.
The Marginalian has a lovely piece on gardening and the role in plays in some very creative and productive people's lives: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/07/writers-artists-gardens/
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