Sitting is killing us.
We sit going to work. We sit at our computers. We sit at lunch. We sit going home. We sit for dinner. We sit to wind down in front of the television. We do it all again tomorrow. Sitting has spawned a multibillion dollar exercise influencer industry.
In the unhurried spaces of our gardens, walking around our beds, stooping to admire a bud, kneeling to weed around the plants already in, turning compost, running the mower. All of these tasks engage our eyes, our hands, our entire bodies. Focused on what we're seeing, we forget the weight of the bucket of weeds as we walk to the compost pile.
Gardeners get the 'full-body workout'. But it produces so much more. It provides green space to feed the prehistoric hunter gatherer memories we carry in our cells. It provides life to an entire ecosystem of bugs and birds and creatures. The gentle activity heals the damage from sitting both in our minds and our bodies.
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