I love that you've given me permission to research peonies! I always want to research pretty much everything and usually stop myself, which is typically a good thing because I do have to work, sleep, and keep my children alive, but also something I should clearly allow myself time for, given how delighted I was by that prompt.
I keep thinking about this and how often we stop ourselves from doing deep dives vs. letting ourselves truly play and follow our interests and curiousities. A colleague asked this week: "When was the last time you've done something new?" and I think a lof of us were taken aback. Sometimes it's altogether justified; like you allude to in your comment: there are of course only so many hours in any given day. And also sometimes our rampant busy-ness feels altogether like an excuse, or at least, like something we can hide behind for awhile instead of carving out the pockets of time to learn what we want to learn. Also, capitalism is the worst and keeps many of us entirely too busy for the wrong reasons.
I love that you've given me permission to research peonies! I always want to research pretty much everything and usually stop myself, which is typically a good thing because I do have to work, sleep, and keep my children alive, but also something I should clearly allow myself time for, given how delighted I was by that prompt.
I keep thinking about this and how often we stop ourselves from doing deep dives vs. letting ourselves truly play and follow our interests and curiousities. A colleague asked this week: "When was the last time you've done something new?" and I think a lof of us were taken aback. Sometimes it's altogether justified; like you allude to in your comment: there are of course only so many hours in any given day. And also sometimes our rampant busy-ness feels altogether like an excuse, or at least, like something we can hide behind for awhile instead of carving out the pockets of time to learn what we want to learn. Also, capitalism is the worst and keeps many of us entirely too busy for the wrong reasons.