Stressed by a lot these days, but the thing that helps has been a constant for the last few years: gardening (at any scale). As long as they get sun and a bit o

Stressed by a lot these days, but the thing that helps has been a constant for the last few years: gardening (at any scale). As long as they get sun and a bit of water, plants do their own thing on their own timescale. Whenever I'm in my head, swamped with work, stressed about the state of the world, I can take two minutes to walk to the garden and see that my plants are none the wiser. They've been growing, stretching toward the sun, sending out roots to gather water and nutrients, and they don't give a damn about the things I'm stressed about.