Day 8- You Are Not Too Old and It Is Never Too Late

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Welcome to DAY EIGHT of our new 30-day COMMUNITY PROJECT where we make something with our hands every day to improve our mental health. We all realize that creativity heals...it's time to put that knowledge into action.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
No one tells the oceans or the trees or the
mountains that they're too old.
They talk of how powerful, howgrounded, how awesome they are.
Imagine if we thought the sameway about ourselves as we got
older.
Maybe we'd realize howspectacular we are.
By Becky Hemsley.

(00:22):
I have to be honest, and Iactually do feel like this I've
never felt too old to be doingsomething.
I've never felt like ew, I'mgoing downhill.
I mean maybe you know, duringmy perimenopause struggles, but
that's a hormonal thing messingwith your brain and your body.
In general, though, I see lifeas this amazing gift, and every

(00:48):
year that we get to turn anotheryear older, we should be so
freaking grateful.
I'm not buying the story thatturning 50 is getting old.
I am not buying that.
I remember years ago when mydad died, me thinking back to
when my parents were in their40s and their 50s.

(01:09):
Oh my gosh, just so young, sovibrant 60s.
Same my mom right now in herlate 70s, ready to turn 80, she
acts nothing, nothing like that.
It truly is a state of mind themore focused you are on the

(01:31):
aesthetics of aging the outside,the more depressed you're going
to be.
Things change, flowers wilt,but when you think about the oak
trees, the mountains, theoceans.
There's no such thing as old.
It's just wiser, stronger, morepowerful.
I would not want to relive my20s for all the money in the

(01:55):
world Not a chance.
I hear quite often peopletalking about women, talking
about aging, and they say, oh,in your 40s you become invisible
.
You start becoming invisibleand I'm like invisible to who?
The 20-year-old boys on thestreet are not whistling who

(02:16):
cares?
The best part about it is thatyour own feelings, your own
knowledge of yourself is nolonger invisible.
You're beginning to seeeverything with the sharpest
eyes.
I believe with all my heart.

(02:38):
You are not too old and it isnever too late.
If it is on your mind and onyour heart, you're capable.
You can do it.
You should do it.
Priorities change with age.
The things that I used toreally care about I no longer
care about one iota.
So don't even bother.
In your 20s or 30s or early 40s, don't even bother worrying oh,

(02:59):
am I still going to be able todo this, what you're doing right
now?
When I'm that age?
You don't need to worry aboutit.
The answer is yes if you wantto, but you might change your
mind by then.
You might not even care aboutit by then.
So drop the worry.
You are never too old, it isnever too late.

(03:19):
That thing that you think about,that thing that you have on
your mind, but you're not takingaction.
You're making up excuses ohwell, I missed the boat, oh well
, I didn't start that earlyenough, oh well, I'm old, or oh,
it's, I took too long.
It's on your heart for a reason.

(03:39):
You're thinking about it for areason.
It's here for a reason, okay,and you need to go for it.
Today's activity is somethingcalled I think it's called
Hammer Flowers.
I found it on Instagram a long,long time ago and I believe I'm
no longer on Instagram so Ican't check it for you, but I

(04:02):
believe that the account wascalled Hammer Flowers where she
goes out and she collectsflowers you know outside or you
can buy them.
Whichever you need to or wantto do.
You get kind of like a thickstock, maybe a watercolor paper
or something like that, and youlay it down on maybe a cutting

(04:25):
board, something that you don'tmind hammering on.
Then you get a really thin,transparent piece of little
plastic so that you could seeeverything under it.
This will all make sense in asecond.
So you have that.
You put the watercolor paper onthe board, then you take your
flowers and you arrange them onthat white paper.

(04:48):
I have trouble with the stems.
It just depends on the size.
If they're small, you can usethem.
If not, just maybe take offpetals and make your own little
flower, just however it kind ofworks out.
Set the clear piece of plasticover that and then take a hammer
and just tiny little hammeringon the flower and it makes color

(05:14):
imprints on the page and itmakes like these beautiful
floral pictures.
Yeah, just look up, hammerflowers and you'll see.
But I love this project and thisis a really, really good idea.
For you know, if you're needingto kind of get out of your head
because you're going out,you're finding flowers, you're

(05:37):
arranging them on the paper andthen you're doing the little
chiseling, hammering of it andyou see the color kind of
splashing onto the page and thenyou can add and move things.
It's really cool.
Then, if you want to I've seenthem take like a pencil and kind
of you know shade things andstuff If you, if you feel like

(06:02):
artistic in that way I I'm notso good at that, but I've tried
it, or like a pen and shade in,but it's fun, fun and it turns
out really beautiful.
My first few, I have to warn you, were real duds.
They just came out like likesplotches of crap on my paper.

(06:22):
So you kind of just have totest out different flowers and
whether you're going to keep thestem on or not and all that
stuff.
But it's fun.
That is it for today.
Hopefully you'll spread theword to anybody that you think
would want to join this anduntil next time, stay curious.