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In reply to the discussion: What would you do with your days? [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)43. I've been drawing since I was a kid
(pencil and pen & ink) but I recently tried my hand at painting and enjoyed it enough that I'd like to learn to do it better. I just have so little time and no good place to do it right now.
My wife and I also joined a local ceramics store that has a class in throwing clay and that was fun too - a lot harder than it looks like in Ghost. Maybe the class should have been playing the Righteous Brothers....but they do other things too and one thing I have been working on is a set of hand painted tiles with a small family tree that we will use in our kitchen when we move and re-model. I think it will be part of the backsplash.
I have also been into photography for a long time - Had my own dark-room back in the day - And I recently got a decent digital SLR so I've been trying to learn that too.
I probably should have practiced a lot more in my youth so I wouldn't have so much new learning and relearning to do now lol...
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Probably the same thing I do already, providing health care in a clinic for our homeless population.
Aristus
Nov 2012
#3
Write, read, cook, garden, feed birds (well, feed any creature that wanted/needed a meal)
Flaxbee
Nov 2012
#20
I went to see a lecture by Wayne Dyer. He's one of the oldies in the "new age" movement
riderinthestorm
Nov 2012
#32
Your story is/was so vivid for me. I was with you in spirit as you walked.
riderinthestorm
Nov 2012
#40
I first would do as you, travel the world and learn and explore cultures, spend 6 months at a time
zen_bohemian
Nov 2012
#71