I love reading and cooking! So lots of good food in the house! Not especially expensive, but healthy and nourishing! Reading, I can forget time! Add a long walk a day … Isn't this autumn wonderful? 💚🌞🍁🌧️🍁🍂🌞🌬️💚🐕🤗 Peace and Love 🪷
I call my craft closet “The Magical Closet of Possibilities”. My daughter knows that our crafts keep sanity in the world. She does lovely art collages and cards. I knit, draw, sew, color, etc. Now I am working on stuffed gingerbread men and dolls for foster children for Christmas. Making things for others makes me feel happy. Your wisdom and thoughts are comforting to me also. Thank you. Hope your weekend is lovely.
As a person who believes in the benefits of natural medicine, I think hobbies can be medicine for many people. As Kate from The Last Homely House puts it…"Get out of your head and into your hands." While I don't consider gardening, herbal medicine, and preserving/cooking food hobbies…I do see the way I approach these things as an art form. I truly care about how these things work in my life and I try to continue learning about them so I can do better. I find it therapeutic! Here's the kicker: I came to these things because of a bad event in life. We suffered a job loss that could have ruined us financially. I decided to stop living status quo and begin doing many things myself instead of outsourcing them. I learned to garden, raise poultry, cook from scratch and preserve food, got interested in herbal medicine, and homeschooled our youngest. All of that and more because a job loss threatened us. Our interests can elevate our lives! God bless!
There are documentaries about people returning to hobbies when they retire. Currently my hobbies are household chores😂. Seriously though they are relaxing versus my full time job.
A hobby gets us out of ourselves and into the flow. During the infamous hysteria going on a few years ago, i picked up some beadwork and before i realized it hours had gone by. I experienced the most peaceful satisfaction.
It was your video on hobbies which came up by chance in my suggestions. It won me over and I subscribed to your channel immediately, been a subscriber ever since. I agree with every word.
I like wandering over ploughed fields looking for flint tools and arrowheads. When I'm lucky it makes my day and if I don't find anything at least I've had a quiet day in the fresh air
Many of what we now call hobbies were once necessities. To buy new sweaters, socks and general clothing was too expensive so people made their own. As it became possible to buy cheap clothing, so people stopped doing this. Then, slowly, I think that people realised what they were missing by not creating things. That's when the hobbies came back. Of course, this doesn't take into account painting, jigsaw puzzles, etc. but it does explain some things.
I’m 73 years old. When I was 9 years old, my mother bought me a small camera using trading stamps. It prompted my interest in photography. I documented some of my teen years with it. In 1975, I became more serious about photography and bought myself a 35mm film camera. I learned much more then. In 1977, photography became my profession. I’ve photographed many things, events, company presidents and CEOs, and even one U.S. Vice President. Photography has been a large part of my life. And it all started with a little hobby.
At 66,I find myself getting lost in family history, local history, reading non fiction historical books, listening to old radio shows on you tube and even classical music sometimes. If I can walk and relax for awhile, it feels like I’m winning.
Not so long ago every single item and implement we require to function was made by hand. Clothing, furniture, utensils, tools. Every person was productive and dexterous. Using our hands to perform repetitive tasks is a human function and art of the unique evolution of human beings which gave rise to all the creative arts. It also requires and induces a state of relaxed concentration which is antidote to the emotional states now commonly listed as mental health problems. This state of mind promotes the subconscious solving of problems and healthy decision making. These repetitive tasks have largely been replaced by adrenaline and dopamine driven games on electronic devices. Each generation is less productive than the last and clothing is thrown out because the task of sewing a button by hand is too much.
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My hobbies are drawing/painting, and gardening.😊 No TV.
I love reading and cooking! So lots of good food in the house!
Not especially expensive, but healthy and nourishing!
Reading, I can forget time!
Add a long walk a day …
Isn't this autumn wonderful?
💚🌞🍁🌧️🍁🍂🌞🌬️💚🐕🤗
Peace and Love
🪷
I call my craft closet “The Magical Closet of Possibilities”. My daughter knows that our crafts keep sanity in the world. She does lovely art collages and cards. I knit, draw, sew, color, etc. Now I am working on stuffed gingerbread men and dolls for foster children for Christmas. Making things for others makes me feel happy. Your wisdom and thoughts are comforting to me also. Thank you. Hope your weekend is lovely.
I love my misanthropism. People suck.
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of The Hobbit, Hobby! Nectar! Neptune! Necktie! Nickel!(Ash 'Army of Darkness')
My husband shares ancestors with Grover Cleveland , the only US president to serve two non consecutive terms .
As a person who believes in the benefits of natural medicine, I think hobbies can be medicine for many people. As Kate from The Last Homely House puts it…"Get out of your head and into your hands." While I don't consider gardening, herbal medicine, and preserving/cooking food hobbies…I do see the way I approach these things as an art form. I truly care about how these things work in my life and I try to continue learning about them so I can do better. I find it therapeutic!
Here's the kicker: I came to these things because of a bad event in life. We suffered a job loss that could have ruined us financially. I decided to stop living status quo and begin doing many things myself instead of outsourcing them. I learned to garden, raise poultry, cook from scratch and preserve food, got interested in herbal medicine, and homeschooled our youngest. All of that and more because a job loss threatened us. Our interests can elevate our lives!
God bless!
Sailing and agate rock collecting are endlessly interesting
There are documentaries about people returning to hobbies when they retire. Currently my hobbies are household chores😂. Seriously though they are relaxing versus my full time job.
I haven’t had a hobby in decades, so I am starting today by making relaxing with your YouTube channel my first new hobby!
A hobby gets us out of ourselves and into the flow. During the infamous hysteria going on a few years ago, i picked up some beadwork and before i realized it hours had gone by. I experienced the most peaceful satisfaction.
People nowadays are obsessed about turning their hobbies into side hustles, which will kill the passion for said hobby.
My hobby is playing Dungeons & Dragons.
It was your video on hobbies which came up by chance in my suggestions. It won me over and I subscribed to your channel immediately, been a subscriber ever since. I agree with every word.
‘Hobbies – like a weapon against the world’ – I so love that Nigel. My main hobby is my hobbies (of which there are many). Cheers. Lee
I like wandering over ploughed fields looking for flint tools and arrowheads. When I'm lucky it makes my day and if I don't find anything at least I've had a quiet day in the fresh air
I ❤️ Amateur Radio!
Many of what we now call hobbies were once necessities. To buy new sweaters, socks and general clothing was too expensive so people made their own. As it became possible to buy cheap clothing, so people stopped doing this. Then, slowly, I think that people realised what they were missing by not creating things. That's when the hobbies came back. Of course, this doesn't take into account painting, jigsaw puzzles, etc. but it does explain some things.
I crochet little hats for newborn babies in the hospital where my daughter in law is a midwife.
Doing anything that we are not being compelled to do can, and often becomes, a hobby.
Thanks!
I’m 73 years old. When I was 9 years old, my mother bought me a small camera using trading stamps. It prompted my interest in photography. I documented some of my teen years with it. In 1975, I became more serious about photography and bought myself a 35mm film camera. I learned much more then. In 1977, photography became my profession. I’ve photographed many things, events, company presidents and CEOs, and even one U.S. Vice President. Photography has been a large part of my life. And it all started with a little hobby.
Stuff rotting away in front of the telly in the latter years, making and tinkering are the things I’ll be doing
Model trains. They have saved my life!!
We’ll miss you. Take care of yourself.
Hear hear.
This was a perfect segway to the video I just watched. So true. A wake up call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnbZcCBGgs&list=TLPQMTMxMDIwMjQnjxrk2nQfew&index=6
At 66,I find myself getting lost in family history, local history, reading non fiction historical books, listening to old radio shows on you tube and even classical music sometimes. If I can walk and relax for awhile, it feels like I’m winning.
Being creative is key. It can be anything from painting a wall to painting the new Mona Lisa.
Autosolos and music for me
I like that quilting makes me focus only on doing that in that moment. As you say, “completely absorb yourself…and feel safe” and I so agree with you.
Not so long ago every single item and implement we require to function was made by hand. Clothing, furniture, utensils, tools. Every person was productive and dexterous. Using our hands to perform repetitive tasks is a human function and art of the unique evolution of human beings which gave rise to all the creative arts. It also requires and induces a state of relaxed concentration which is antidote to the emotional states now commonly listed as mental health problems. This state of mind promotes the subconscious solving of problems and healthy decision making. These repetitive tasks have largely been replaced by adrenaline and dopamine driven games on electronic devices. Each generation is less productive than the last and clothing is thrown out because the task of sewing a button by hand is too much.