I knit, crochet, sew my own clothes, do cross stitch without patterns, cook, create beautiful spaces in my home, cultivate many outdoor perennial gardens around our home!
It’s an open porch with low brick walls and a metal roof. There is only room for 1 chair. I have a reclining lawn chair. We live on the corner so I can see both streets. It’s my favorite place to write.
Mostly free form poetry and some haiku. I’ve never been much of a journal writer but I’m trying out an app called Journal that sends reminders to journal. What I like is that it tracks where I am and also notes when I take photos on my phone. It uses that info to give me prompts to write on. I call myself an inspirational poet - I write when something inspires me - rather than an intentional poet that writes on a regular basis.
Returning to my Light Center ( inner light) does it for me.
Frequent, daily returns 😉
You are a power station!
Made me smile, Phyllis 😊
I begin my day in my sanctuary, my bed, with a pen and a journal. There is where I go within and then move on with the rest of my day.
That must make your bed an extra sweet place to return to, come nightfall!
You know it!!!
When I sit to do my hand work I enter my sanctuary.
It is as if a door opens with a welcome sign. It is here in the sanctuary I can fully embrace myself, my.life, just as it is.
What kind(s) of handwork do you do?
I knit, crochet, sew my own clothes, do cross stitch without patterns, cook, create beautiful spaces in my home, cultivate many outdoor perennial gardens around our home!
Wowza! What a soul sanctuary your hands provide!
I also crochet and cross stitch. I also quilt. I miss my gardens because we rent and there is no space.
You and Lorraine have much in common. I wonder—can you "indoor garden" or "balcony garden" or some such in your rental?
Centering prayer and meditation also slow quiet music. If I can be on my porch it’s extra special.
Care to tell me about your porch?
It’s an open porch with low brick walls and a metal roof. There is only room for 1 chair. I have a reclining lawn chair. We live on the corner so I can see both streets. It’s my favorite place to write.
I have a picture of you on your porch now. 😊 What do you like to write?
Mostly free form poetry and some haiku. I’ve never been much of a journal writer but I’m trying out an app called Journal that sends reminders to journal. What I like is that it tracks where I am and also notes when I take photos on my phone. It uses that info to give me prompts to write on. I call myself an inspirational poet - I write when something inspires me - rather than an intentional poet that writes on a regular basis.
You may be an "inspirational poet" but you exercise a lot of intentionality, it seems . . . 😊😊