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Tho' I realize you may not know I was away from home in the first place. But yes, I am writing this early Sunday morning, having arrived home from England on Friday evening. I am taking the days slowly...unpacking...indulging in the organic digestive biscuits and tea I brought home whenever I like (including just now)...drinking in the autumn here, having been steeped in the autumn there for the past two weeks...
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Thankfully, I am not feeling the melancholy I usually do when returning from the land I feel so deeply, mysteriously attached to...just grateful...a little sad...and looking forward to weaving what I found and loved into my life here. So many dear memories, so many photos and little films to share in many ways in the days to come. And I know for certain I will not be waiting another fifteen years to travel there again.
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But since I have been home, the desire to belatedly bring my home into its cosy, candlelit, dark-of-the-year atmosphere is strong, as is my need to let go of all that beckons to be let go of. The leaves, red and yellow, falling around me as I read my book on a flowery cloth under the dogwood tree yesterday, show me the way. And what beckons most of all relates to the Daybook.
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I explained in my last missive to you that my energies have been moving from the studio to other areas of my life, and I've been waiting to see what that meant for the Daybook. And now I know that it means I will be letting go of it, tho' it will be a gentle letting go. The rest of this message is for my devoted Daybook women, as writing via Etsy is problematic. So, if you have been wondering whether you will have your Days and Diaries for 2025, I can say...perhaps.
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It came to me this morning that what I want to offer is what Jimmy Stewart did in It's a Wonderful Life. Do you remember when there was a run on the bank and he asked his customers how much money they needed to get by until things settled down? I want you to please let me know (just reply to this letter) what you need, Daybook-wise, to "get by" for now. I know I don't want to make a dozen Etsy listings, with all of the time and complication that come with that. But I do want to make just enough for you to feel you are going into the new year with the pretty, comforting pages you are have become accustomed to. So just write to me, and we will have a conversation, back and forth, to bring that into being.
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I do have a box of earth-thoughtful supplies that I am putting together and hope to share later in November, as well as some digital lovelies (an Advent calendar and a simple planner for 2025) but it is mostly earth, home, loved ones, and delighting in the days as they come that has my attention now. Wisteria & Sunshine will be the place I share it all, in the main, tho' I will write again when I get a few of my England films created and up on you~tube.
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Until then, I am wishing you mild, mellow Autumn days and hours,
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