Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

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

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Tom Cunningham January 29, 2019 at 1:15 PM You certainly make the most of everyday Caren. Keeping the mind active is good to maintain mental health. Good luck. Tom Caren Krutsinger January 29, 2019 at 2:46 PM I really need to do this for my sanity, Tom. Thank you for the stop-by.

Rhona Mcferran January 29, 2019 at 5:06 AM Art is one of my very favorite hobbies, too (along with poetry)... enjoyed this very much! I am only mildly surprised you won a racquetball championship 3 months after having a baby, though.... as NOTHING can keep you down for long, my Wonder Woman friend! ;D Caren Krutsinger January 29, 2019 at 5:12 AM Hahahaha My girlfriend who put on airs begged me to join a racquetball league and be in a contest. She said "I will come in first, you will come in second." I am still laughing and that was 40 years ago!

Sand Blown January 28, 2019 at 11:51 PM wow...beautiful...life as, a hobby...andt you do soundt au qvik on yor feet teacher Caren Krutsinger January 29, 2019 at 3:59 AM I have dog ears, and this is the secret to my success. I can do lunch duty, walk up to one loud child and say "Please keep me out of your business. I can hear everything you say even if you whisper because I have dog ears." At first they do not believe me and want proof but when I start telling them everything I have heard, the entire room gets much more quiet.

Mahtab Bangalee January 28, 2019 at 9:39 PM You are really a painter. Sometime you paint on canvas by the color, brush, palette; sometime you paint the entire world and your absolute mind by the words, diction, poetic expressions. its your nature, its your greatness/// Caren Krutsinger January 28, 2019 at 11:02 PM Whoa. You may be giving me too much credit, but of course, my muse, Trixie is delightedly dancing on my head and spinning with pure happiness over your comment, Mahtab.