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In reply to the discussion: My conclusion after my usual scrolling sesh this morning is [View all]electric_blue68
(27,030 posts)30. I always recommend Green Therapy! 🌳🌷
The pandemic messed up my decades of park, and garden going. I went a lot less, bc I had to take public transit to a park.
This Spring I'm going to go back more of that, once the trees are leaving out like half way. 🥰🌳🥰
I used to live for several decades 6 blocks away from one of the major parks in waaaay upper Manhattan. Be up there 3-5x's a week.
Occasionally I'll still be worrying while in a green space, but it still eases it some. Usually I can deflect it should it arise.
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I volunteer in the local (N.J.) swamp. There is fox poop, raccoon poop, muskrat poop and Great Blue Heron poop.
3Hotdogs
Apr 2024
#41
Nature can be wonderful, beautiful. But it also gives us our problems such as aging and diseases.
erronis
Apr 2024
#13
Where I live, there's this thing called weather that doesn't always cooperate.
ShazzieB
Apr 2024
#12
So sorry you were seriously threatened! How hideous! That certainly could give you...
electric_blue68
Apr 2024
#38