Every fall I go away for an extended time alone in a cabin in the woods and I’m off to do so again in a few days. I’ve chronicled it in previous posts. I choose state park cabins because they are fairly primitive: no TV, no internet, heat by wood stove. There are lots ofContinue reading “THE VALUE OF BOREDOM”
Category Archives: Doing
RAMBLING THOUGHTS ABOUT RESTING MY BRAIN
I have just turned 78!! Getting older never bothered me much, but as my body is catching up to the numbers, the last few years have given me pause to think about what I want to do with my remaining “perky” years. Someday travel will be too exhausting, it almost is now sometimes. Someday my kidsContinue reading “RAMBLING THOUGHTS ABOUT RESTING MY BRAIN “
A THOUGHT IN NEED OF FURTHER PONDERING
OK, here’s what I’m thinking, as I’m way past midlife. At almost 78, I guess I’m an endlife girl! I used to see life as a series of many stages or phases, 1, 2, 3, etc; but now I’m thinking maybe not so much. Maybe only two. First we build and explore in order toContinue reading “A THOUGHT IN NEED OF FURTHER PONDERING”
CHAOS AND PEACE – FOLLOWUP
I have a very long dining room table. It sits 16 people before the leaf is added! I treasure the many family dinners here, crowding in, bumping shoulders. My grand-daughter chooses the linens and plates and tablecloth. We line the silver and glassware along the table Martha Stewart style. It broke my heart to giveContinue reading “CHAOS AND PEACE – FOLLOWUP”
BEING AT PEACE WITH MY UNREST
I am not at rest, not at ease. My mind churns over and over, looking to make a decision, to decide, to then be at rest. But I am not at rest, and I wonder how it can not be so? The Pandemic looms over us as the holidays approach. Something in our hearts propelsContinue reading “BEING AT PEACE WITH MY UNREST”
Menagerie
MY MENAGERIE! A child I must still be. I have stuffed animals on my bed. Lots of stuffed animals! It started with big curly-haired lamb on the clearance shelf at Kroger the week after Easter. White he was, huge black eyes staring at me. Pitiful eyes they were, lonely. That lamb, begging to be takenContinue reading “Menagerie”
Decluttering
September 25, 2018 Skittering, shuffling, scampering, out of breath I am. Books and papers and recipes, photos and letters and souvenirs. Memorabilia. Spilling over. Cramped and crowded I am, this stuff of forty years, tucked away, stored, forgotten. I have become not the boss of my house. Declutter I must! Out with forgotten books weContinue reading “Decluttering”
Fall
October 1, 2018 I have an awesome view out my back window. Yard and garden beds. Flowers and butterflies. And woods. With trees, lots of them. They are thinking of changing color and dropping their leaves. Not doing it yet, just getting ready to. They phase into it, this dying, a little at a time.Continue reading “Fall”
DOING IT ALL!
October 15, 2018 Last week I was overwhelmed, over committed, and crabby. Its been a crazy busy summer. We’ve traveled a lot, bought a property, tore down a house, and hosted a wedding, among other things I can’t even remember. And of course, all the disagreements that come along with. So about a month agoContinue reading “DOING IT ALL!”
TWO THINGS: MY ADVENTURE and CATCHING UP
October 28, 2018 Last year about this time, I decided to rent a cabin at a state park and go there for several days to be alone and think through some things that were troubling me deeply. At home I am easily distracted, so going someplace where there were no household chores and no TVContinue reading “TWO THINGS: MY ADVENTURE and CATCHING UP”
The Cabin In The Woods
November 11, 2018 Halloween night I took off to my yearly “be-alone-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods” excursion. I take a survivor-girl attitude to this event. Isolated, no phone, no internet. If I fall while on a hike, I must crawl myself out to a far distant highway so somebody can find me. I survive boredom. I conquer fear. IContinue reading “The Cabin In The Woods”
More About Traditions
November 28, 2018 I’m still pondering Tradition. Some of ours have been repeated for so many years now I wondered if they’d become boring and old and over-used to the point of non-usefulness. So for Thanksgiving I changed things around a bit, to keep things alive and interesting. So I thought! And I learned aContinue reading “More About Traditions”
Quietness
December 10, 2018 I didn’t want to sit and be still. I’d rather do the laundry, Make the bed, Wash the dishes. I didn’t want to think and ponder. I’d rather mop the floors, Shop for groceries and gifts, Bake bread. I didn’t want to write and draw. I’d rather hang garland, Decorate the tree,Continue reading “Quietness”
My New Adventure
December 28, 2018 I have an ache in my heart. Its been there a long time. When I was a little girl, I wanted to go to ballet class. I wanted to be a ballerina! A beautiful ballerina who wore a fluffy pink dress and moved with grace and looked elegant. But someone told meContinue reading “My New Adventure”
Wildly Clara 