Swede’s Photographs on Nostr: Good morning. 🌹🌹🌹 9 April 2026 I just set out a sprinkler to start watering ...

Good morning. 🌹🌹🌹

9 April 2026
I just set out a sprinkler to start watering the lawn. We haven’t had many rainy days lately. I don’t have an irrigation system I can just switch on—I still have to do the whole hose‑drag routine. It’s a little exercise, at least. It takes me three days to cover my whole target area, which still isn’t the entire yard.

This morning I noticed that the years‑old hose on the east side of the house has a leak. My reaction was basically … eh. I had to laugh, because not so many years ago my self‑diagnosed OCD would’ve had me freaking out and scrambling for the truck to race to Lowe’s for a replacement. Now? I recognize that the earth isn’t going to stop spinning over a leaky hose. I’ll replace it, of course—just when I get around to it.

It’s funny how we tend to overthink our problems and make them seem bigger than they really are. I think that tendency worsens as we age—purely a layman’s opinion—but it is documented that episodes of anxiety increase over time. Some of that is probably chemistry, but I wonder how much comes from simply spending more time ruminating. It helps to compartmentalize, to tuck problems into a drawer until it’s actually time to deal with them, so we can live our lives without carrying them around all day.

I think we were better at that when we were young, when something like a traffic ticket barely even registered. We dealt with it and moved on.

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James

“Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.” — Richard Carlson

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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