Destressing Techniques

After a tough week, flower arranging is my "cable a tierra"... in my feeble ikebana-wannabe style (my short-lived ikebana course teacher once commented on one of my (I had hoped!) "ikebana" arrangements: "It ok, but it western. Come, everybody. I show you western way. It very easy!"...and so, culture creeps into everything...even when I was consciously trying to be ikebanaish...sigh...