The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

While the world has been busy going to hell in a hand basket, Izzie has been busy with trivia and distractions such as reading, listening to gloom and doom on the radio or playing Sudoku or Mastermind. I discovered these latter two are great for trying to remain the present moment unless that time includes listening to Radio National. Then they are no good at all and gardening is a much more compatible activity as I have found that it is possible to concentrate on listening to the words or doing the puzzle but not both at the same time. Rather like listening to talkback radio while reading the paper. Such attempts at multi tasking merely lead to frustration and the realisation that in attempting to do both at the same time, I have ended up with the benefits of neither.

That is probably where doodling or the current colouring in craze come in handy. They don’t require the same parts of the brain used for processing spoken or written words.

( Scrabbling Serpent )