Comments on: An Entire Mood Elevating Pharmacy is Right Outside Your Door http://www.slowdownfast.com/an-entire-mood-elevating-pharmacy-is-right-outside-your-door/ Brief Motivational Interventions Mirroring the Time-Limited Reality of Human Existence Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:11:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D. http://www.slowdownfast.com/an-entire-mood-elevating-pharmacy-is-right-outside-your-door/comment-page-1/#comment-8537 Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:47:56 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/an-entire-mood-elevating-pharmacy-is-right-outside-your-door/#comment-8537 My mother had other reasons for getting us outside, but you're right about the benefits. When my daughter returned from college, she reclaimed her bedroom which I had happily turned into an office. With no indoor office space I set up my laptop on my patio daily. It has turned out to be a wonderful "office." The patio cover allows me to enjoy the sun without being burned by it, and the perimeter of my patio is filled with flowers--gardenias, roses, midnight jasmime, and an elevated flower bed that I've loaded with a variety of flowers. Then in the patio itself I set up a rug on the floor with a living-room type setting with a patio-type couch, two chairs and a low table. The plants sitting and hanging around the patio are not on the sprinkler system so I have to get my hands dirty a few times a week. Along the side of my house in addition to the orange and lemon trees that were already here when we moved in, I planted tomatoes, bell peppers, serrano peppers, cantaloupe, rosemary, and squash. I'm not a natural when it comes to gardening, but I have managed to keep my "farm" alive and enjoy the fruits of my harvest. It's the best of two worlds. My mother had other reasons for getting us outside, but you’re right about the benefits.

When my daughter returned from college, she reclaimed her bedroom which I had happily turned into an office. With no indoor office space I set up my laptop on my patio daily. It has turned out to be a wonderful “office.”

The patio cover allows me to enjoy the sun without being burned by it, and the perimeter of my patio is filled with flowers–gardenias, roses, midnight jasmime, and an elevated flower bed that I’ve loaded with a variety of flowers.

Then in the patio itself I set up a rug on the floor with a living-room type setting with a patio-type couch, two chairs and a low table.

The plants sitting and hanging around the patio are not on the sprinkler system so I have to get my hands dirty a few times a week.

Along the side of my house in addition to the orange and lemon trees that were already here when we moved in, I planted tomatoes, bell peppers, serrano peppers, cantaloupe, rosemary, and squash. I’m not a natural when it comes to gardening, but I have managed to keep my “farm” alive and enjoy the fruits of my harvest.

It’s the best of two worlds.

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