Coping Skills: Serve

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This is the current list of coping skills.

8. Serve someone in need.

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-ways-helping-others-will-improve-your-life.html

https://zenhabits.net/25-ways-to-help-a-fellow-human-being-today/

https://youthcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/101-ways-to-volunteer.pdf

Behind Black Holes

 ... are echoes of strangely bent light.  :D

Quasi-Dead Monks

Some Tibetan monks seem to die, but their bodies do not start decaying until days or weeks later, rather than just a few minutes as usual. According to Tibetan tradition, they are not yet dead but in a final meditative state called thukdam. Scientists studying this phenomenon have failed to find any electrical activity in the brain, but neither have they come up with a materialist explanation for why this happens.

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Rain

When I got up to feed the birds, it was just sprinkling, but by the time I opened the door it was raining quite briskly and is now pouring.  Oh well, they won't be much interested in feeders until it stops.  There was one soaking-wet dove in the birdgift apple tree, is all I've seen.

Birdfeeding

Today is mild but wet.  It's been raining off and on.

I fed the birds during a lull in the rain.  There was a squirrel on the hopper feeder who really didn't want to get off.  I explained that I needed to refill the food box, and eventually he packed off up the tree.

Mini Workouts

It turns out that mini workouts -- short sessions of activity ranging five to ten minutes -- have many benefits. The key is that you need to work hard enough to raise your heart and breath rate, so you feel tired when you stop. This means the fitter you are, the more effort you have to exert; but conversely, if you have limited mobility and 50 steps will tire you, that counts.

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