Rest has been hard to achieve lately , and I’ve found myself leaning often on Imagined Rest—tiny mental escapes. While not ideal, they’re serving as small bits of nervous system regulation until real, deeper rest becomes more accessible.
A few Imagined Rest helpers have been:
Katherine May’s newest podcast, The Clearing. Listening to folks talk about their dream retreats helps my mind wander off the leash and into its own temporary mental retreat.
Re-watching (and re-watching) The Detectorists — a meditative BBC series created by Mackenzie Crook about the DMDC (Danebury Metal Detecting Club) where the height of drama is a rival detecting club’s encroachment on their current plot of interest.
Tiny sketchbook diagrams of things I imagine doing in nature; like trying out a Winter Hammock session on a more sunny, less frigid day, which will surely be coming someday to our slowly thawing Minneapolis.
Speaking of tiny things, here’s a good question for a mental escape:
Dreaming of real rest and a more humane humanity,
This Creativi-Tea break is brought to you by my art on Fine Art America:
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