Yes, I am supposed to be working on my paper that is due Tuesday. But I need a break. I worked today at the library and now the library is closed. The laundry continues to pile up and the dust is still settling upon all the surfaces of my home making me look like the slacker I am. I swear I just want to up and move away now. I would take with me the bare minimum needed to get by on. The rest of the stuff would be given, sold or thrown away with no qualms on my part. I want to have only those things that I truly need. Yes, those things can be ornate and artistically expressive. In fact, I would demand that of the things I have left. However, there would only be those things that I truly want and need in order to function.
If I had such a home I imagine that cleaning it up would be a breeze and that I would live there happy and content with myself. This could be just a fantasy of course and I might miss my ten sets of dishes and my antique glassware and my piles of books and all the other things I have accumulated with 27 years of marriage but a older girl can dream can't she?
I would like to go on a Buddhist retreat, take a vow of silence for at least a week, do yoga and meditate, enjoy nature and just be. That is what that new header picture speaks to me of--a simplistic life at one with nature.
what a great video--please watch it!!! In the video she talks about WHY we have so much stuff. I am just sick and tired of stuff!
So what team does this mean I'm on?
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According to this, the *Twilight* character I'm most like is Bella.
Apparently, I'm an emotional and passionate person who isn't afraid to take
risks.
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I've practiced yoga for many years and give it credit for seeing me through my 20+ year career in engineering.
And you can have your own retreats everyday. I built a deck where I retreated to in good weather.
Relax!
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I would like to go on a Buddhist retreat, take a vow of silence for at least a week, do yoga and meditate, enjoy nature and just be.
wow that was a great video!
We just got all new flat screen monitors here in the Library!
I'd like a similar retreat.
I've seen that video before - it's amazing and my kids really relate to the message.
I would like to go on a Buddhist retreat, take a vow of silence for at least a week, do yoga and meditate, enjoy nature and just be.
Before or after you pass out gobs of fireworks to Murkans? ;-)
Oooh...a retreat sounds nice, but a vow of silence for a week? I would have a nervous breakdown.
My sister in law benefits immensely from the sort of retreat you're talking about. Getting away from it all would be so nice...
Love this.
I find the older I get the less I want stuff. Unfortunately my whole house is full of stuff! I find myself envying my mother her studio apartment in the senior citizens apartment building. She had to just keep the important stuff and get rid of everything else.
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