I don’t like my life very much lately. I am up to my eyes at work, actually I’m over my eyes. I’m working, it seems, like all the time. I can’t seem to relax. It goes on and on.
I am having some serious envy of other people’s lives. One of my favourite blogs right now is www.soulemama.com. This family lives in Maine, and the Mama home schools her kids, is an excellent seamstress and crafter, and a wonderful photographer. She’s been teaching her kids about the medieval era. They’ve designed and built castles, made armour, are about to work on some weapons. For one of the boy’s birthdays they had a medieval feast.
I’m sure that her life isn’t all wonderful and beautiful, after all she’s living in Maine with a lot of cold cold coldness. So cold that someone would have to teach me how to live in a place that cold b/c I would injure myself.
I’ve also been reading The Omnivor’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It’s a great book, following the source of the food we eat. The part I’m reading right now involves Polyface Farm in Swoope, VA. The farm had cows and chickens and vegetables etc…It sounds amazing.
I’m sure it’s hard work, as hard as hell, but right now it sounds wonderful. To be quiet and secluded, creative and productive. I’m not any of those things right now.
jUST do what you can do and don’t sweat the small stuff, it makes you old before your time. May your life lead you down a path where the roses will bloom all summer long.