Coping Skills: Exercise

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.

Tension Releasers

1. Exercise or play sports.

In particular, when survival mode responds to a nonphysical threat, try to find a place where you can do some brief but intense exercise. If you sprint for 5 minutes, your lizard brain will think you've outrun the tiger and can rest now. It's alert, but not very smart, and easily tricked.

Lexember Day 9

I'm doing Lexember this month. The idea is to make (or learn) a new word every day. This can be for a conlang or a natural language.


December 9
Hybernet -- a network, like a cybernet, but created from tree roots meshed just above permafrost to exchange information. This is a form of bioengineering to create computerlike functions based in plant life. It works, but few actual applications for it have been developed yet.
[Polychrome Heroics vocabulary]

Birdfeeding

Today is cool and mostly clear.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches.

I trimmed brush along the house and hauled a trolley of it to the firepit.