Convalescing From Modern Life

4-9-19

7:57 am Tuesday

It is Tuesday.

I will go on a quick walk with a horse.

Yesterday I took more breaks from work while working remotely.

Being more physically active during the day instead of just sitting in front of my computer is helpful.

I worked on the garden some and put some spikes up to keep the cat from killing the humming birds.

I have a sense I am sick and I need to work on recovering.

As I worked in the garden hoeing up grass I had an impression that I was convalescing from a traumatic illness.

The illness of modern life, with the underlying cause of sitting all the time, is  killing me.  The irony I am experiencing is we moved to the cabin a year ago to pursue our values  of ATM which includes pursuing fitness, but I am sitting and driving more instead of walking to work as I did when we lived in Seattle.  The walk was 2.8 miles each direction, and I felt so much healthier when I did it.  This change over the last year with the addition of driving more and walking less I believe is a fairly common experience and again it is killing me.  It is fairly small change  just to walk a little less but it is having an enormous effect on me.  I need to find a way to fit in exercise in other ways.

The gravity of modern life appears to be planting  us in front of a computer or behind the wheel of car and this is not in line with my values of ATM.

I will resist this influence and try to be more active and will hopefully find this activity with what we are trying to achieve here at Cascadia Heritage Farm.

I am thankful for this opportunity.