Can You Go Home Again? Perspective.

I'm so in love with my home right now. This is a shot taken this morning as I left for school: my roses reaching up toward the crescent moon still hanging in the Maxfield Parrish sky. This feeling I get as I close my gate beneath the iron garden arch, bursting/dripping with Cecil Bruners at this time of year. The fragrance, the quiet morning beckoning me away toward wordly life. My sanctuary. The yard around the white house that reflects happy family and laughing, squealing grandsons and all the barking, annoying dogs that I have loved. The two new apple trees planted for me last Mother's Day. Oh, and more. The memory of teenage boys sitting on my porch, becoming men and giggly girls reading star and beauty magazines.

On that note, I will tell you a little bit about how the economy has reared its head here at this home. Being in my first year of business as the country's economy crashes, has been challenging. At my school site, the sweet little loft apartment that houses my office has been sitting fairly empty.

I have Decided to move into it and rent my home out for a few years.

Camille leaves for college this fall and then it's just me. I can do this. I can make believe it is the loft apartment I would have lived in out of college had I had the opportunity. I will have my chickens and my garden right there and will leave less of a carbon footprint living where I work.... or....working where I live. I'm getting used to the idea. It's all still pretty new, yet my goal is to be out and have my house rented by beginning/mid June.

Wow.

Comments

[Beth]

that sounds like a good solution--I know you'll miss your plants and the memories but sometimes a temporary change is good for us. Please share the transition and all the feelings associated with it.

[tracey k. in Ohio]

I don't blame you for making a change due to the economy; it's hard everywhere. And I commend you for temporarily giving up your lovely comfort; I'm stingy w/my stuff - I wouldn't want to leave! (LOL!) I'm sure the lucky 'renters' will appreciate it as much as you do. Keep us posted! :-D

[Angie]

I hope you get great renters and that the economy improves for all of us soon.

[Rebekah]

I know this must be such a huge step for you ... a big step out of your comfort zone! I wish for you much peace and a smooth transition.

[Lil]

wow is right! if the spirit move you, why argue? you'll have to post pics...

peace,
Lil

[Trixie]

On another note...I wish I could smell that spicy, sweet note of your Cecil Bruners. I miss those.

[naomi dagen bloom]

another adventure! i am so fascinated with how you've negotiated work/life/longings since you began posting.

like other commenters, agree that reading aboutyour new direction will be wonderful.

yours, naomi

[lisa]

Wow is right. I know what a hard decision this must be for you. Your home IS a sanctuary, like few others I've been in. If it graces someone else for a while, then it will be as every other aspect of your giving life has been, and will have made life sweeter and more magical as an outpouring of who you are. Lucky folks.
xoxoxo Lisa