You did'nt really do nothing you looked after yourself. Thats healing in so many ways I tend to plan this type of day during the long rainy stretches when I can't Catch Kill or harvest something. Here is a new book for you if by chance you don't already own a copy. It's called the Catch and the Feast by Joie and Bill Mcgrail the recipes are from the old days but extremely interesting the story is timeless and one that is repeated over and over. Just to encourage you to have another day of healing.
“We humans are more linked to the earth and its cycles than we’d like to admit.”
So true! Like Minnesota, we have been in our finishing season here in Montana. The golden leaves have fallen, the blue bird skies are dotted more with gray puffiest and the wiley wind whirls round more fiercely. Winter’s coming!
I wish I was a bear as I’d appreciate hibernating and doing nothing. But, I will welcome the snow with open arms as I appreciate traveling down the flows she brings catching the fish she nourishes come summer and harvesting my favorite berries before the cycle happens again.
Thanks for the book title! I can use a good book to read to help do nothing.
mmmm I love the slow down. In my 20s, an ex once reminded me that my "doing nothing" was quite different from his. He asked what I'd done for the day and when I said "Oh nothing. Load of laundry, made soup, changed the sheets, and read", he pointed out the tasks I'd done and that it wasn't "nothing". Now at 48, Im better about doing nothing, especially if my partner isn't home. Now I can find food for myself and read in front of the fire an entire day and be quite content with doing nothing which is actually the most important thing-taking a breather.
Winter to me was always something to be endured: days way too short, too cold and too hard. But fall was the finishing season, when you slowed down and finished off your projects, sat back and just enjoyed nature. I'm enjoying my days right now: eating breakfast to a perfect sunrise, doing more yarn work as I admire the changing of the seasons. And yes, it's a good time to just sit and let yourself recharge and heal. And we all need that. Too bad business culture hasn't figured it out yet.
This was a wonderful read. I too garden/ weed till at least 4 stopping to make dinner. I am driven. Than you for the good advice to slow down
You did'nt really do nothing you looked after yourself. Thats healing in so many ways I tend to plan this type of day during the long rainy stretches when I can't Catch Kill or harvest something. Here is a new book for you if by chance you don't already own a copy. It's called the Catch and the Feast by Joie and Bill Mcgrail the recipes are from the old days but extremely interesting the story is timeless and one that is repeated over and over. Just to encourage you to have another day of healing.
“We humans are more linked to the earth and its cycles than we’d like to admit.”
So true! Like Minnesota, we have been in our finishing season here in Montana. The golden leaves have fallen, the blue bird skies are dotted more with gray puffiest and the wiley wind whirls round more fiercely. Winter’s coming!
I wish I was a bear as I’d appreciate hibernating and doing nothing. But, I will welcome the snow with open arms as I appreciate traveling down the flows she brings catching the fish she nourishes come summer and harvesting my favorite berries before the cycle happens again.
Thanks for the book title! I can use a good book to read to help do nothing.
mmmm I love the slow down. In my 20s, an ex once reminded me that my "doing nothing" was quite different from his. He asked what I'd done for the day and when I said "Oh nothing. Load of laundry, made soup, changed the sheets, and read", he pointed out the tasks I'd done and that it wasn't "nothing". Now at 48, Im better about doing nothing, especially if my partner isn't home. Now I can find food for myself and read in front of the fire an entire day and be quite content with doing nothing which is actually the most important thing-taking a breather.
Can’t believe no one wants the title of the book? Care to share, Hank?
All Fours by Miranda July.
Enjoyed that one. Unusual story but compelling.
I love the change in seasons, especially here in MN. You've captured it nicely.
Winter to me was always something to be endured: days way too short, too cold and too hard. But fall was the finishing season, when you slowed down and finished off your projects, sat back and just enjoyed nature. I'm enjoying my days right now: eating breakfast to a perfect sunrise, doing more yarn work as I admire the changing of the seasons. And yes, it's a good time to just sit and let yourself recharge and heal. And we all need that. Too bad business culture hasn't figured it out yet.
Great essay - a fall painting with words - and I need to do this sometime. “Stop The World I Want To Get Off!”
Hank, you have so eloquently highlighted the fall culture of Minnesota. Very insightful.
Lovely piece of writing and you used the day well by reading your novel to the end. So, it was not a 'nothing' day!
Hank, this is one of the best columns you’ve ever written ❤️! I’ve learned this in my 50’s and now 60’s. It’s wonderful! It’s GOOD FOR YOU!