There is beauty all around us

I’m spoiled. Really, I am. I am living in Oregon, the destination for thousands of folks in the 1800s. It truly has some of the richest soil in the world. That means great farming for trees, foods, and flowers.

Quarantine while on property with flowering plants and trees (some over fifty years old) and ideal temperatures isn’t house arrest, it’s heaven. But that’s really not the point. There is beauty all around. You just have to open your eyes to see it. Even if you’re confined to an apartment, do you have electricity? Internet? Someone to talk to? How about the gift of sight, even if you have to wear glasses or ‘readers’?

Are you bored? Honestly, read a book. Try out a new recipe. Contact a friend or family member and challenge one another to a cook off using the same limited or odd ingredients. Take a piece of paper and draw portraits of each other or where you’d rather be? Can you draw a palm tree? A movie screen? How about a bar loaded with patrons drinking Coronas with lime? You don’t even have to be in the same room to do these activities. Remember that box of photos you were going to organize ‘one of these days’? Well, today’s the day. How about the files and files of photos on your phone you’ve taken and never printed out? Check out sites like FreePrints.com on your phone. Get prints for free, just pay for the shipping. Or take those pictures and play with your phone’s editing tools, saving your creations in a folder. Remember to record everything you do with a date and place. A year from now, or five or ten years forward, you can look back and tell others that this is what you did to keep from going stir crazy.

Or you can go outside and pull weeds to make a bigger flower and veggie garden. Either way, make good use of your time. Find, create, and enhance the beauty that is all around.

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