8 min
Episode 333: LOL Marimo not Mirabou! Chronic Wellness
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- Health & Fitness
Brain fog is dominating my day.
Treatment last week has left me feeling worse before I feel better.
Today I'm posting about a "creature" that lives in my bathroom.
Our bathroom doesn't get any direct sunlight so we grow marimo (NOT MIRABOU) balls -- incredibly low maintenance moss balls.
They're perfect for those of us with little time and energy because they require so little upkeep.
Perhaps it's my Piscean nature, but I think these watery plants have a metaphor to offer us:
When I think about the ways my life has been transformed by illness, disability and pain, it's easy look back to the life I once lived. Using that as my yardstick makes it difficult to envision a different life ahead.
This small moss ball lives on the lake floor, rolling around, in almost darkness, and brings me a lot of joy -- and that's the only thing it does, roll around!
How can we re-imagine our lives in a way that works better than trying to fit back into a self that used to be?
Society tells us these lives we lead don't have value -- but look at these sweet plants -- they're magic, and so are we! Not as we were, but as we are!
How can you imagine yourself into a different way of being?!
I'm off for the next two weeks, in the meantime, please go check out my new website - annetteleonard.com
Brain fog is dominating my day.
Treatment last week has left me feeling worse before I feel better.
Today I'm posting about a "creature" that lives in my bathroom.
Our bathroom doesn't get any direct sunlight so we grow marimo (NOT MIRABOU) balls -- incredibly low maintenance moss balls.
They're perfect for those of us with little time and energy because they require so little upkeep.
Perhaps it's my Piscean nature, but I think these watery plants have a metaphor to offer us:
When I think about the ways my life has been transformed by illness, disability and pain, it's easy look back to the life I once lived. Using that as my yardstick makes it difficult to envision a different life ahead.
This small moss ball lives on the lake floor, rolling around, in almost darkness, and brings me a lot of joy -- and that's the only thing it does, roll around!
How can we re-imagine our lives in a way that works better than trying to fit back into a self that used to be?
Society tells us these lives we lead don't have value -- but look at these sweet plants -- they're magic, and so are we! Not as we were, but as we are!
How can you imagine yourself into a different way of being?!
I'm off for the next two weeks, in the meantime, please go check out my new website - annetteleonard.com
8 min