Where is your sanctuary?

@DrWatson Back when I worked sometime the winters were slow and we wouldn't work every day. On a day off I use to enjoy bringing a book and going out for lunch about 1:30. By that time the lunch rush was ending. The wait all knew me and would keep my drink refilled and I would sit there after lunch and just read for an hour or two. I use to really enjoy that.

@bijouxbroussard Same here. Mum played the piano and organ and wrote hymns and spiritual songs. My childhood was full of music.

Since the Covid lockdown, I can't touch the keyboard, and Mum passing earlier this year hasn't helped. When I go to my parents' house to work on moving stuff, the silence is very strange. Last year, in the mornings when standing at Mum's door with my key in hand, I would often hear her playing the piano inside the house...

@bijouxbroussard That is a beautiful sanctuary , which most of us are not talented enough to enter into. I encourage you to embrace it again. 🤗

@SW-User I'm so over the clear cutting. :( They've chopped acres and acres down here recently for neighborhoods that still haven't been built. Also an industrial park and they're about to clear another however much for a truck stop.

I know it's affecting my mental health and I can only assume it's affecting everyone else's too. Also really messing up the weather patterns here.

I just wonder how long it can go on before it has gone too far. 😕

@thepreposterouspanda I do so agree that clearcutting with loss of farms and wild areas affects our mental health immensely. It surprises and saddens me that so few people seem to recognise how big a problem this is.

@SW-User They're too enamored with greed and "progress" I guess.

If progress means even MORE asphalt, then I'm not interested. 😅

@elafina There's been too much fire available this year...

@SomeMichGuy I'm talking about a small warming fire

@elafina Yeah...just too much fire this year...

@Applepiedom Music as well though and movies

@Jexie that's good. It's just scary for this to be sanctuary but I too find some peace being here

@Applepiedom It's a distraction