Painting Is My Most Relaxing Hobby

Four hours of word games a night, with two I-pads on my lap, is absurd. But in the time it takes one to process I can be playing another word. Painting has slowed down a bit since I realized that poetry is fun. I was averaging four completed canvases a week for five years. Now I barely complete one. Painting is my most relaxing hobby. She helps me get less stress, and retain my composure When someone else gets Game of the Week. For I love that kind of exposure! Playing with children is a fix I need daily. Lucky for me, I finally snagged a career That allows me to get that fix at work which is ever so dear. In the summer I am busy from sun up to sun down, replanting my flowers. Their exuberance and delightfulness helps me retain all of my happiness powers. In the fall, my hobby must include meeting my friends for wild women campouts. We are nutty, and funny, and it is fun to have singalongs and shout-outs! It is weird how hobbies change from time to time, clock never slowing…. Twenty years ago if you had asked me my hobby would have been sewing. Forty years ago my most intense hobby was playing racquetball, I won a league championship in 1980, three months after I had a baby, after all! Written Jan 28, 2019 Contest: Hobbies Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver