Ramblings, ideas and memoirs of a joyous adventurer. Absinthe aficionado. Empathetic thinker-feeler. Verbose writer. Avidly authentic. Hydrangea fanatic. Snow leopard lover. Joy huntress. Promising my devotees a honest glimpse into my life as I live with freedom, power and full self-expression in an unfiltered and sometimes distilled way. CHEERS!
“She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.”
Anne Cameron (Canadian Novelist & Poet, August 20th, 1938 to November 30th, 2022)
“Oh, yes it is! We may come back to enjoy another life–and I’m open to that possibility–but until I know for sure, I don’t want to waste the one I’m living right now. I’ve endured. And survived. And I’ve lived marginally, but living well is all it’s cracked up to be.”
“…open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.”
May Sarton (Belgian-American Novelist & Poet; May 3rd, 1912 to July 16th, 1995)
“Deliberately seeking solitude–quality time spent away from family and friends–may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.”
“It is a difficult lesson to learn today–to leave one’s friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week… And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Writer & Aviator, June 22nd, 1906 to February 7th, 2001)
“I have always yearned for solitude to quiet the bustle of life so I could consider the inner voice inside me. Quiet contemplation has always been an attractive vice.
–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 267 to 268 of 501.
I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.
While driving to work westbound, I saw an eagle flying eastbound on the northside of I-90 before leaving the mainland. I’m so blessed and in the “FLOW”.🦅
“If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. As it is, they feel so unjustified in their demand that they rarely make the attempt.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Writer & Aviator, June 22nd, 1906 to February 7th, 2001)
“I want to be left alone.”
Greta Garbo (Swedish-American Film Actress; September 18th, 1905 to April 15th, 1990)
“I believe that it’s essential for busy women, by which I mean all of us, to pause a moment–this moment–to reconsider the entire subject of solitude. Too many of us approach time alone as if it were a frivolous, expendable luxury rather than a creative necessity.”
“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again te true essence of themselves… The problem is not entirely in finding the room of one’s own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as this is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of its activities. In fact the problem is how to feed the soul.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Writer & Aviator, June 22nd, 1906 to February 7th, 2001)
“In the past I was horrible at this and always placed myself last on the list. I am gradually putting myself first. I am not willing to say I am being selfish because I do so. Instead, I am worthy and deserve to put myself first and find the time to be creative and fully self-expressed.”
–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 266 to 267 of 501.
I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.
While driving to work westbound, I saw a young eagle sitting on a light pole just outside of the Mercer Island tunnel on I-90. I’m so blessed and in the “FLOW”.🦅
