I realized something about gardening and homesteading and farming talking to my normie family members on Easter. These activities get you in the swing of natures ebbs and flows so when I'm simply asked "what's new", I find myself responding with "how much time do you have". There is always something new with the animals, the climate, the trees and bushes and plants that, if you don't do any of that, your life is fairly static, which historically is abnormal. I wonder what that does to your brain. I definitely understand that when you have kids, you're at least somewhat taken along for this ever changing adventure because they're constantly growing and changing, but it's human centric and doesn't necessarily connect you to the larger "being" that is nature.

Gm.