GRAND Magazine - Summer 2020 - 28

invisible grandparents

Have fun while
sheltering safely

e, invisible grandparents, have perhaps more
experience at keeping things at a distance to
avoid feeling the painful feelings of separation from loved ones little or large. What we need to
remember is how to have fun every day anyway.
Here are some ways: * Make a DONE rather than a
TODO list and visualize the things least essential to
your survival being completed first.
Watch Broadway plays that you'd never have
been able to attend and share them with
family on your widescreen TV.
Use the power of your
imagination and travel virtually
anywhere in the world you'd
like to see. Google it and you'll
'be there' for free.
See performers whose
concerts you'd never have been
able to go to Sheryl Crow, Stevie
Wonder, Willie Nelson, Justin
Bieber and dozens of young
bands from around the world
perform their own arrangements
of classic Rock 'n' Roll songs
by watching the video of the

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Summer 2020

Star-Studded 'One World' Concert To Rally
Support For Health Care.
Listen and watch RadioParadise.
com/HD for slide shows to music 24/7.
Do a jigsaw puzzle and let yourself be
soothed by fitting in the pieces.
Laughter is great medicine. Many
comedians are offering their own specials. Jerry
Seinfeld held one to a virtual audience in a huge auditorium, and his series 'Comedians in Cars
Getting Coffee' will give you a look at classic
autos as well as a peek inside their owner's
minds.
Find your crayons and marking pens.
Color away in coloring books giving yourself permission to draw outside the lines.
Check out The Mindfulness Coloring Book
or Zentangles, an easy-to-learn, relaxing,
and fun way to create beautiful images by
drawing structured patterns.
Art is essential. Get out a sketch pad
or put a newsprint on an easel and create
your own art. Throw ego (edge god
out) and do not criticize or evaluate the
outcome.

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BY PAT HANSON

How to Draw Zentangle for Beginners

Remember the book or magazine you liked long
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ago? Read it again, you'll be surprised at how much
more you 'get' from it now. Many libraries have free
virtual memberships. Back issues of many magazines
are now available through their archives for free.
Find a piece of nature i.e. flowers, a blade of
grass sticking between cement sidewalk, and thank
the universe or god, Gaia, mother-father spirit or
Christ, whatever you call it, for the simple grace of
growth.

Dr. Pat Hanson is a seasoned health educator,
public speaker. workshop facilitator and novice
comedienne. She is the author of Invisible
Grandparenting: Leave a Legacy of Love
whether You Can be There or Not and In Search
of Stillness: My Final Frontier.
www.invisiblegrandparent.com
Facebook.com/Patricia Hanson
Facebook.com/Stillness: My Final Frontier
Facebook.com/Invisible Grandparent

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