a dog at the campsite me and my lovely friend stayed at earlier this week
Painting from the landscape is calming, being engulfed by it is intense but also comforting with all the greenery, nature is powerful. I spent a lot of time in landscapes this week, sitting and living on a hill in north Wales, driving through them on the motorway, seeing trees as I zoomed past them. But I don’t think anything can beat just sitting still in the landscape, being free from any reasonability’s, just letting yourself pause and take everything in. If I could prescribe this I would, but I’m no doctor, not yet.
But when you must return to a city, make sure you enjoy that too, there’s enjoyment to be had in all environments, yes it can seem way more fast paced and anxiety inducing but we can also pause in these places too. Go to coffee shops, talk to people, I enjoy having small chats with people around town all the time, meet business owners, everyone has a story and the more people you meet, the smaller and more village like a cities become. Everyone is a character, and everyone is much more interesting than you first think. Everyone’s a little bit silly once you get to know em, unless they’re uptight, then they can suck on my balls, but they wouldn’t cos they are too uptight.