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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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 Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 08:40:15 AM
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I am sitting here on our little front porch at camp in my adirondack chair watching the morning sun drift in a lazy fog in and out of the haze of heat. The pine trees are particularly fragrant today after last night's thunderstorm and I am watching the moisture rise in waves of mist over the meadow. The locusts have begun their clattering, chattering staccato and I hear the jack hammering of a wood pecker in the depths of the forest. Moths and butterflies, bees and an occasinal dragonfly buzz a late morning hello.Chipmunks are playing tag under the porch step and an upstairs thump from me sends them scurrying only to creep back closer and begin their noisy racket all over again.. Chicory, foxtails, butter-n-eggs, daisies and black eyed Susans line the pathway to the lake where I see one lemon yellow kayak skimming the glass like surface of the lake. I consider going down for a swim but decide I am already busy soaking up all that's around me. Like the squirrels, I will store these sights and sounds away to remember all over again when I am far from here.
When my friends return from town they will inevitably ask, "What did you do all morning?" and I will answer,"I listened and watched".They will shake their heads and smile at me the way you do an impish child
but they will never know what they have missed.
I love my friends and family but I don't have to be attached to them 24 hours a day! I am missing my guys this week very much but know they are going to have an experience (hopefully) that will be meaningful. I think it's funny that no one thinks I should be up here alone, as if I will wither away and perish! I have books, sewing,my easel and paints and projects that need doing to the cabin so I am doubtful bored will enter the picture! The alone part I am sort of relishing as I am so rarely in this state of grace! My husband might be the only other person who gets it and thank goodness for that!
Hope you all find a bit of serenity in your days, weeks and years.
Love to you all, Bramble
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 08:53:47 AM
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Bramble, thank you for this mini-vacation! I agree. Alone time is essential.
Hope the book is a good one! 
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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quiltedess
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Nancy
Priest River
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 09:24:57 AM
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I have ALWAYS enjoyed alone time. My hubby does too. But our kids, they can hardly stand it. They are energized by having people around them. My energy seems to be sucked up by others, especially my daughter. I love her to pieces, but she does require lots of energy. Thank goodness she is grown and married now. :-) Do I make any sence?
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 09:33:10 AM
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I need my alone time too. My husband dosn't seem to need it as much as me but is good about letting me have space when I need it.....usually.
I think has that "energized by other people thing going" and I love people, but need to be quiet and alone some too...probably why I am up so late every night...I always consider it insomnia, but I think it may be a survival thing..haha
Jenny in Utah
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 09:36:24 AM
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I understand you completly Nancy...my oldest daughter is like that...She just wears me out. Part of it I suppose is she has always been a worry to me. I do crave solitude, wish I had a little cabin to escape to of my very own. I do have a "dream cabin" by a lake about 30 miles from here. It is old, bungalow style, painted a soft blue. It has homemade shutters with the little pine trees cut out, and a great screened in sleeping porch out back. It is very rustic, simple and calls to me. It must not be used much by the owner because the grass is overgrown. I imagine myself packing provisions for a few days, and driving to this cabin and settling in all alone, to read, draw, drink coffee or wine, cook up some pasta and go barefoot and braless, write in a journal, listen to some jazz or blues and just BE!!!!
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
You are the fearless rose that grows amidst the freezing wind. Rumi |
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quiltedess
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Nancy
Priest River
ID
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2005 : 12:54:47 PM
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MeadowLark, it sounds wonderful. Maybe you should try to locate the owner and see if it's for sale. :-)
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 12:57:54 PM
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I NEED alone time! Never been "lonely" - don't understand that word. My husband doesn't need that, he is opposite - wants and needs people and noise. We need to work this out as it is causing problems. My dream, wish, etc. is to have a small place in the country to be alone; he wants a place near water (OK by me), but I don't want a cottage 10 ft. away from another one.
Hopefully we will eventually find about 10 acres on a side road close to a lake in this area, so he can have his water and I can have my space. Meadowlark, your place sounds lovely!
Cecelia
ce's farm
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 2:12:47 PM
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I have to have alone time! I wonder what God has planned for me since I am here in Kansas for 2 months?!?!
farmgirl@heart
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bubblesnz
True Blue Farmgirl
291 Posts
helen
New Zealand
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 12:24:54 AM
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I love alone time too and value every moment of it. Nothing rejuvenates you more.
My favourite place is a stream on the edge of the bush, would love to show you all a pic, but not sure how to do this on here.
Meadowlark I think you should move your cabin onto the edge of my stream. Think i would be in heaven then.
A great oak, is just a little nut which held it's ground. |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 06:28:42 AM
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isn't it funny girls how people think we never want to be alone somewhere? We love our families so much & give everything we have to them but being alone to recharge is not just a whim or a wish, for me it's a must. It's how I manage to go on at times. I have to leave the house and go walk, hike or just sit somewhere where all I hear are the sounds of nature. Our women ancestors were alone for reasons most of us will never have to deal with. They were no shrinking violets. Bramble, good for you for having that time alone. Michele
"she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands". Prov. 31:13 |
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grammy-o
Farmgirl in Training
25 Posts
Lisa
Greenville
WI
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 12:14:05 PM
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My alone time usually consists of either mowing the lawn or shoveling horse manure. However, on those rare but wonderful moments when I actually have the time to saddle and ride, or even sneak in a quick bareback ride, I am rejuvinated for weeks! I have 4 daughters, my "Dave" has 2 girls, and I have 1 grandson. I work 1 part time job and have my own business--- not alot of ALONE time. I've just learned to make the most of the time I do get, and when there isn't time, but you need time..close your eyes and remember the last one. It works for me!
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