…and not finding our rhythm yet.
I’ve been reading with interest everyone’s New Years post and thoughts and
words for the year, but haven’t been able to find my own. Lots of building
decisions and tasks and days and days of sniffles or headaches or stuffiness
(sometimes all at once) have thrown a haze over the first fresh, new weeks of
the year. Thank goodness the haze is lifting and January and I seem to stepping
on each others toes less and less as the days go by.
words for the year, but haven’t been able to find my own. Lots of building
decisions and tasks and days and days of sniffles or headaches or stuffiness
(sometimes all at once) have thrown a haze over the first fresh, new weeks of
the year. Thank goodness the haze is lifting and January and I seem to stepping
on each others toes less and less as the days go by.
I have spent the days on the sofa simplifying and redecorating my blogs.
It is a work in progress, but I would welcome your thoughts on it…
do you like the larger pictures and centeredness and everything but the
posts tucked away in the little categories above?
It is a work in progress, but I would welcome your thoughts on it…
do you like the larger pictures and centeredness and everything but the
posts tucked away in the little categories above?
One day when I was in town, that first week of January, I had a spare
twenty minutes and popped in the bookstore to browse the shelves.
I so wanted to find a book or a magazine to point the way for me in the
New Year, to give me a little guidance or focus or inspiration.
twenty minutes and popped in the bookstore to browse the shelves.
I so wanted to find a book or a magazine to point the way for me in the
New Year, to give me a little guidance or focus or inspiration.
I didn’t find anything at all….but did get a little glimmer of the book that
I might put together some day that is the book that I was looking for.
I might put together some day that is the book that I was looking for.
In the meantime, I have found much beauty and steadiness in the
book that has been my constant companion for thirty-four years.
I bought The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady when I was eighteen
and its pages have been open to the month or season in every home
I have had over all these years…in my bedroom at my parent’s house,
book that has been my constant companion for thirty-four years.
I bought The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady when I was eighteen
and its pages have been open to the month or season in every home
I have had over all these years…in my bedroom at my parent’s house,
my apartments and tiny houses in the years after college, our first
little house in Williamsburg and our present home in the countryside.
Lately, it has been open on my dressing table, and I gaze at it morning
and evening as I open pots of face cream or pin up my hair. I wait for
the day of one of Edith Holden’s entries to match the date I read and
imagine her on her walk or bicycle ride in the English countryside more
than a hundred years ago….paying such close attention to the birds and the
leaves and the flowers…to the weather and the small wonders of the
everyday. So she gives me some of what I am looking for…
always has, I suppose.
little house in Williamsburg and our present home in the countryside.
Lately, it has been open on my dressing table, and I gaze at it morning
and evening as I open pots of face cream or pin up my hair. I wait for
the day of one of Edith Holden’s entries to match the date I read and
imagine her on her walk or bicycle ride in the English countryside more
than a hundred years ago….paying such close attention to the birds and the
leaves and the flowers…to the weather and the small wonders of the
everyday. So she gives me some of what I am looking for…
always has, I suppose.
And I found some of what I was looking for in my beloved Country
Living (British)….just the cover speaks of so much-orderliness, domesticity,
light, comfort. I also have some blog pages open on my computer that seem to
touch on what is needing some attention in my life or something I would like to
focus on. Sue, Tif, Dorit, Alicia, Alison….all glimmers. So…no resolutions for
me….just some Glimmers and Little Realizations that with some time and
attention will strengthen and become familiar and smooth steps
in this everyday dance.
Living (British)….just the cover speaks of so much-orderliness, domesticity,
light, comfort. I also have some blog pages open on my computer that seem to
touch on what is needing some attention in my life or something I would like to
focus on. Sue, Tif, Dorit, Alicia, Alison….all glimmers. So…no resolutions for
me….just some Glimmers and Little Realizations that with some time and
attention will strengthen and become familiar and smooth steps
in this everyday dance.
sarah January 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm
The weblog looks lovely. I hope you do write that book! Only so long as it doesn’t keep you from writing at this weblog 🙂
the wild magnolia January 21, 2011 at 8:29 pm
For my part, either way you choose to design is lovely, while I do prefer the smaller gathered lovelies, stories and beauty seeming tucked away, waiting especially for us.
Sharing what you love is a particular gift, and I am blessed and inspired each time I visit. This blog will glimmer because your creative gifts glimmer. I leave here each time with “glimmer” all over me. 🙂 “See”.
So many emotional currents are flowing through my life right now, it is true for me too, no especial new year thoughts have surfaced. I take that to mean, the time is not right, and everything has its own time. So I am currently at rest with this notion.
Wishing you a special evening.
Blessings.
Dinahsoar January 21, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Your centered blog design is soothing..not at all distracting..for me the images and the words flow smoothly.
Lesley January 22, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I think your blog looks lovely – serene and peaceful. And I love the word “glimmer”..so much gentler sounding than glitter. 🙂
I, too, have a well loved copy of “Country Diary”. Lovely, isn’t it?
Laurie January 23, 2011 at 12:02 am
I will have to check out the Country Diary, if it has inspired you all these years. I like both blog styles, but am a bit fonder of the previous style. I’ve followed Tif’s blog, and am tickled to have found Sue’s Mouse blog. Thanks for sharing it!
kkkkaty January 23, 2011 at 9:40 am
I, too, like the smaller, little glimmer pages better, but this is just fine. I, too, hope you find your way to writing the “little” book sometime in the not too distant future. In the meantime, the New Year is a work in progress from the previous year, and life goes on….so easy to say, but easier to take in stride for me than a big letdown after a big setup. Maybe I will fianlly start the blog I’ve been thinking about for a while. I so love to check in here often.
Bonnie January 24, 2011 at 10:20 pm
I’ve always liked your sense of beauty and can click on the photos to see them larger. I, too, found that British Country Living…and thought the same thing. Have you watched Larkrise to Candleford?
3rdfloorcreations January 25, 2011 at 1:30 am
I have that book as well and read through it every year. 🙂 The paintings and the descriptions are always amazing and fresh every time I open the book.
walklet January 25, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I should have know you were an Edith Holden fan…On our first Christmas together my husband gave me a couple of tins with her designs on them 25 years ago. I think they were filled with little soaps and things. I have her Birthday Book as well that helps me keep track of everyone’s special day. I recently found her biography at a yard sale that I will pass on to you when I’m finished if you like. Just drop me a line.
Oh and I think I like the centered text but the smaller photos so I can read about them at the same time and click to enlarge when needed.
Wendy
Sue January 27, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Identifying closely with what you have written lately… hope you find your rhythm soon, and when you find it, tell me where!