Still not enough time

With the COVID-19 pandemic and so many of us staying home, I keep hearing and reading about how there is more time to get stuff done. Nope! Not my experience.

Some of my IHC team mates have shared a little of their experience at living more minimally. Maybe I need to learn how to do that. How do you do that?!

It's not that "stuff" is important to me, it's the things I do that require "stuff". Art requires art supplies, learning requires books and internet access, growing plants requires gardening supplies... and I recently pulled out my sewing supplies and unfinished projects in an effort to get back to replacing some of my old worn out wardrobe with natural fibre clothing of higher quality (I might be addicted to linen). Perhaps even including the novelty of women's clothing with useful pockets!

At least we've reduced what we buy for gardening. Didn't buy potting soil, instead using sifted compost that we made ourselves. Don't buy fertilizer anymore, instead there's compost, worm castings and worm "juice" (from our little worm farm), as well as the chicken litter. Don't buy pots for starting seeds anymore, instead use the individual size Liberte yogurt containers from the yogurt we buy anyway (they're the perfect size).

It's been wonderful to see people pulling together during all this turmoil and uncertainty, and I keep wanting to say, "I can do that", "I can help with that". That's my problem, I "can" do things, but do I have the time? Or would I be setting myself up to disappoint people? Even if I do have the skill-set, I can't do everything!

So, where to minimize?

What's this got to do with Kung Fu? Perhaps nothing, but I kind of see Kung Fu as a way to learn more self control, or maybe it's simply another perspective for looking at ones self and the world around. I don't know. Doing Kung Fu and I Ho Chuan just seems to make me think of all this, and maybe, just maybe, that's the point.