Well here I am and welcome to my new blog on a new host.
I’ve changed the name of my blog as the old one
(deconstructed smallholding) had passed its purpose and my life has changed
considerably (in a good way I like to think) since I started it. So here I am at ‘Always Coming Home’. I chose this name as it’s the title of Ursula
Le Guins’ wonderful book – an archaeology of a society living in a possible
future in a valley in what would be present day California. I love this book; the evocative and
imaginative prose; the mixture of poetry, stories, cultural exploration… I really
can’t do justice to it but it resonates and has been a firm favourite for over
20 years now.
I also thought how perfectly I feel about my life and home
now. At the ripe age of 50 I feel I am
coming home to myself and my life as I want to lead it. Simply, sustainably and
mindfully. I feel hugely grateful for
the opportunity and I want to make the most of it. I want our home to be warm, creative,
welcoming and happy. I want to be able
to express the joy I feel at creating something rather than buying it, at
learning new skills, at growing food and at using money as a possible
ingredient in creating a solution rather than as a solution in its own right.
It is (as they say in such a cringe making way on some TV
talent shows) a journey. I know at times
I will stumble, sometimes fall, find paths that are hard or easy or damned
impossible; I know I will have to change course sometimes and completely
rethink destinations or courses but that doesn’t matter because I will be
learning and living and hopefully growing in a loving home; and what more, as
humans, could we possibly ask for?
So I’m sitting here in the summer house on a sunny April day,
looking at the garden all glowing and green and thinking ‘thank the gods it’s
spring!’ And to celebrate here are some moments of loveliness from the garden.
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