2013

…is what I seem to need to make a start on many things these days, except for staring at the lushness all about me, or reading on the porch sofa, or working on my creative businesses. But all work and rest make Lesley…hmmm…not a dull girl, but a slightly discontented one. 

So I am using Peggy’s new gathering to be my nudge towards something more. 

Something to read, something to create, and the sharing of both.

First I read some of my July issue of Country Living (British Edition)…

…which reminded me…no…for I had not forgotten this one of my many plans to weave my mother’s things into this rest-of-my-life without her…no, I hadn’t forgotten. But I keep putting it off, for reasons both deep and not. 

But as pretty as the little stack her handkerchiefs is, it will be that much prettier…and will be a step I need to take along this path…if I get started on making the bunting with it…the bunting I’ve seen in my mind’s eye, over and over, hanging amongst the beams of her room, which is now our room.

And while I wait to start with the ironing of the handkerchiefs-tomorrow-when it is supposed to cool off a bit, I started a new book. I read it many years ago and believe it to be the book that started me on my quest for brown and white china. I haven’t reached that exciting bit of the book yet, but am steeped in sheep and haystacks and dairying and wonderful characters. 

Work and rest and reading and making…threads, when woven together, that make for a contented summer’s day.

 

 

…too quickly it seems, but time often feels like that, doesn’t it?

 

 

I will soon be out of my Wimbledon cave…

 

 

…and I have handled and accomplished and completed most every little technical and creative challenge that has come my way in the past weeks with my two online endeavours. So I believe I may finally have some time to post here more often.

And by the way, with the help of my tech-guy in England, there are now monthly subscriptions available for my Post, for a very small charge, should you want to be able to send messages like the one above to those who would love to receive it. 

 

 

And have you noticed the new banner? I hope to have more time to write here because there is so much to say….this getting older is such a rich and messy and gorgeous and complicated time. The new banner speaks of this to me…of the transformation I feel I am in the midst of…of the ever-present and deepening need for my wood and brick home and this earth, our home…and so much else.

A few more little tasks, the sketching out of a simple summer rhythm, and I hope you will see me writing here again…very soon. 

A lovely July to all.

xo