Comments on: The Zen of Painting http://lindabonanno.com/2009/05/15/the-zen-of-painting/ Personal & Intellectual Development Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Gregory http://lindabonanno.com/2009/05/15/the-zen-of-painting/#comment-15 Fri, 15 May 2009 05:02:56 +0000 http://winethinker.com/?p=349#comment-15 When I left my last full time gig last August, my first thing was to spend two months landscaping my house. I laid out and dug up new planting beds, put in edging (which involved chopping out some close-to-the-surface roots), tilled, reworked sprinklers, and planted. I completely gutted, tilled and replanted some of the existing planting beds and did some hillside cleanup. I lost over 20 lbs doing this work, and I felt like I was in great shape.

Then, I went back to work as a contractor, where I’m putting in a lot of hours in front of my computer scraping together a living for my family – and I have proceeded to put every pound right back on.

Desk jobs suck! Working with your hands, or athletic activity, is a GREAT antidote to work.

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