and get some pastels (either chalk or oil) and try those. They’re more versatile than crayons…but crayons are a bit on the inexpensive side, so you could test drive drawing with those before making the investment in pastels.

Another idea…since you’re not an out-of-shape person. You could take up something like nature photography. You can’t run by stuff and be able to take cool pictures, so it would make you slow down…but you’d get to spend time outdoors doing a low-impact activity.

take up your cello and find some chamber music partners?

and can recommend it, if you can find somewhere with the equipment to take some lessons.

The beauty of clay, for me, was that it was totally recyclable. All “failures” disappeared into the slurry bucket, to re-emerge as new clay to make new messes, er, pottery.

Wheel throwing takes strength, so it has a physical component, but you do it sitting down.

My next project is to learn papermaking, which looks like a likely art form for me because I LOVE playing in messes.

You can buy these soft chalks and use a sketch book. Chalk is forgiving: you can “erase” a lot of mistakes, give your work a soft look, and you may find you really enjoy coloring with these. You can use a photo as inspiration or do a still life from objects in your home.

Of course, I agree with Adar that pottery is just the best but I wouldn’t call it inactive!

Didn’t you once say you wanted to try Quilting?

_{how about surfing and blogging? Are they considered active or non-active? If they’re active I can totally reassess my sedentary lifestyle in a more positive light…}

avoid YouTube. I’m at nearly 300 videos posted, and I am a ‘stats junkie’... in that I look at how many people have viewed them each day.

But, it can be done without a lot of physical effort.

Have you done any stargazing? I took an astronomy class in college and used to spend evenings finding the constellations and starts we’d heard about in that evening’s lecture.

I saw it as a goal out here (and I had heard about it before that) and decided to try it. It has been a couple of weeks now since I bought the origami paper to do it and I have yet to fold a crane successfully.

I love your coloring idea…have you tried a “scribble picture” yet? :)