Comments on: Are you good at hammocks?

By: karendukess

karendukess — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:07:48 +0000

Hammocks and little children do not add up to relaxation as they see a hammock and think swing. Maybe you will get good at hammocks when they are older! Worth striving for…

By: Nina Badzin

Nina Badzin — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:03:01 +0000

This is so hard for me–always multitasking–I am NOT good at hammocks.

By: Lisa Ahn (@Lisa_Ahn)

Lisa Ahn (@Lisa_Ahn) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:06:46 +0000

Yes — not fair at all! I’ll just have to keep reminding myself, and coming back to this post,

By: karendukess

karendukess — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:26:12 +0000

Lisa – and isn’t it frustrating that while it takes days to wind down, it can take less than one day to tense up after a peaceful vacation? Sort of like how fast you can gain back the weight you took so long to lose. Not fair!

By: Lisa Ahn (@Lisa_Ahn)

Lisa Ahn (@Lisa_Ahn) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:03:01 +0000

I love this reminder to slow down and breathe — it’s not something I am particularly good at, and I’ve been struggling with it in my life and writing lately. We just came back from a lovely three week vacation in Maine, and it took days for me to slow down enough to watch the birds. Sit in the hammock. Exhale. Now we’re home and I’m trying to keep hold of that mentality, the value of being idle.

By: Lindy

Lindy — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:03:53 +0000

You are right: we are a one hammock household too. And people do fight over it. But maybe giving in and getting more hammocks is like giving in and going over to the leisure side. Not quiteu the dark side…

By: karendukess

karendukess — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:48:39 +0000

Lindy – your comment makes me wonder why a house only ever has at the most ONE hammock. Is it more special because we all fight for it? Or would it really be great if a house had three or four hammocks and guests could settle in and mellow out, too (of course most of us don’t have room for that, but I think you might)!

By: karendukess

karendukess — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:59 +0000

So true, Meg. Something so unsettling for so many boys about having to sit still….my youngest used to not be able to watch TV unless he was standing on his head. Once upside down, he could be relatively still!

By: Lindy

Lindy — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:22:22 +0000

God, Karen that was fantastic. Very profound and down to earth. And just comfortingly wonderful.

It made me think back to last summer when I seemed to have endless house guest to entertain at the farm. And if I think about the best bit of the whole summer’s leisure time it was this: the one single hour I spent sitting in our hammock under the birch tree reading day old newspapers from England. Bliss.

Write more. Write lots. Love Lindy

By: Meg D

Meg D — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:19:41 +0000

Thank you as always! I love a hammock too. I think it can create a stillness that is not quite a stillness for boys too – something that they need. Somehow they need to keep moving in their quietness. Or even a trampoline to lie on, and look through it to the grass or look up to the sky. It seems to be hard to just be still – even my largest boy (hubby) of 42. When he is still, he falls asleep.