Posts Tagged ‘abstract tree art’
Benefits of Walking
I’ve begun my walking routine again – and feel much better as a result. I became very lazy during the winter and walked only occasionally.
Tonight I was reading the blog of Cathy Woo (cathywoofineart.blogspot.com), a Seattle artist who walks in the Alki Beach area. For her, “It is not sufficient for me to be passively present in Nature. I have to walk it. Movement is essential to my well-being. It …provides insights more enlightening than any I could come up with by way of stationary concentration and effort”.
For me, also, movement is essential to my well being. I am just not happy unless I’m moving. I’m not sure that I gain as many insights as she as a result of walking, but it does give me more energy than otherwise. And doing landscape painting out-of-doors beats painting from a photograph by miles!
The Office, Again
Well! There was to be no landscape painting today! It had rained in the night and more was predicted for the morning.
It was a good day for finishing the office. I filed a big pile of papers and then attacked the income tax. A while back I had brought a big box of my husband’s old income tax papers down from the attic. Each year was carefully labeled and put in its own envelope and all were 9-20 years old. Do you have any idea how long it took to look through those and separate the recycles from the personal parts which I shredded? Now, if I can just get the desk tidied, the room will be perfect!