Just Getting Stuff done... Sometimes silly... Sometimes a bit serious... Life with Cheri… Art Music Literature & Lots of other stuff too!
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2 Dec 2022
I remember that time you told me
You said, "Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time. Joni Mitchell- A Case of You
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Jun 10
So… people say maybe I’m not right… But I never got a certificate or anything for it… not even a testimonial! Anyway… not so much worried about that lately though. Plus it’s like basically the same thing…
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7. Build something small.
A meal.
A sketch.
A clean drawer.
Churchill had bricks.
Jung had stones.
You need your version of bricks and stones.
Something concrete enough that your mind cannot turn it into another negative spiral.
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6. Step into sunlight before you check your phone.
Do not let the algorithm become your first atmosphere.
Open a door.
Let your eyes receive the morning light.
Depression wants you in a mental cave.
Light reminds the body there is a world beyond your mood.
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5. Do one visible task with your hands.
Wash a cup.
Fold a blanket.
Sweep the floor.
A small finished action gives the psyche proof:
“I influence my world.”
That matters.
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4. Doodle what you cannot say.
Depression traps emotions beneath language.
So stop trying to explain what you feel.
Draw the heaviness.
Draw the pressure in your chest.
Draw the thing with no name.
The unconscious moves first through images, next through discovery.
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3. Use a rebounder for 3–5 minutes.
You don’t need a workout.
You need a state change.
Gentle bouncing gives the nervous system rhythm, breath, circulation, and vestibular input.
Depression collapses the body inward.
Rhythm tells it:
“I am moving again.”
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2. Walk outdoors without devices.
No music.
No podcast.
Just nature and you.
Walking brings back horizon, rhythm, weather, light, and ground.
Your mind opens because your body is no longer frozen in the same room with the same thoughts.
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Churchill and Jung understood something modern psychology forgets:
Depression feeds on abstraction.
It weakens when your hands touch something real.
Here are 7 cheat codes to shift your nervous system from depression into momentum:
1. Use your hands to build something.
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May 9
"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
- Hermann Hesse
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May 9
So… WiFi was down… but not now… still maybe going to a place where I believe in we… more than me 🤔… idk 🤷♀️
Someone could write a verse about it …if they weren’t stuck in a mood…
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May 3
If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.
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Apr 9
IDGAF, this is one of the greatest bands ever to exist x.com/JukeBoxNonStop/status/…
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Mar 17
Yay 🎉… I’m a 8.7… but probably won’t last … I think it’s just the mocha peppermint, whipped cream coffee…🐝🐝🤪
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Johannes Brahms: 4 Ballads op.10. Gustav Piekut at Bösendorfer 214VC Gr... youtu.be/DKPREUi_ZuA?si=sP3a… via @YouTube
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In Chopin I met you
Cheri… my love
Always you greet me
Over and over again
You are cherished
Above all else…
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In the deeply emotional live recording at Jardin Musical (Brussels), the legendary pianist Maria João Pires delivers a refined and profoundly introspective interpretation of Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1, with such exquisite inner expression that it has become one of the most beloved versions on YouTube.
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