How to keep sane in a complicated world with a piece of paper and a pack of crayons
Neurolines
I am by no means the owner of the answer(s) to this question but I am definitely trying to find ways to keep sane, enjoy life (sometimes) while swimming in very choppy waters. Learning to appreciate the goodness of what is even if that goodness comes in tiny drop sizes is something I am learning to do. To say this comes easy would be a lie. I am tempted to ask “what is easy” and a part of me says … listen … this is an old pattern, you are so used to believing that things are hard, and you need to work/study/try even harder in order to make it, whatever make it might be at that particular moment in time.
It can be reading a page from one of my favourite novels, writing a few words to a friend, watching a program on youtube (the other day it was a documentary about Agatha Christie), listening to an audiobook, cooking something simple, making a lip balm or soap, or drawing, painting, or picking up rose petals in the neighbourhood or ….
We all know what works for us, what worked in the past. In spite of this, sometimes it is not the what worked in the past but what else am I tempted to try. And here is where the unknown comes through rushing through the door. This is what happened to me a few good months ago. This is how neurographica came into my life. On a cold January, when everything seems dark and gloomy, when spring seemed terribly far away and one was desperately trying to find something that might, just might lift me up from the depts of the” barrel full of melancholia”.
to be continued