which would YOU choose? and WHEN?

18 minutes from now you'll see yourself, your life, and your place in this world very differently. Take this opportunity to be astonished, and inspired. 18 minutes to a new way of thinking... 

p.s. Thank you, Missy, for sharing this with me!

from the top of the house

I love rooms at the top of the house...

photos by trine thorenson

You know when you're

just about to go to sleep,

or you're just sort of,

you know, falling asleep...                  

and you think you're really falling,

so you catch yourself?

                  

That ever happen to you? You're

not falling, just falling asleep.

                 

There you go.

                  

When I was a little girl,                  

I always wanted to fly.                  

From the top of the house.                  

At night, I'd close my eyes,                 

and imagine I was on the roof,                 

looking down at my parents

in their bed.  

                  

And then I'd jump off...                  

and I'd fly...                  

While everyone was sleeping,                  

I'd be soaring around,                  

looking through their windows, 

                  

flying...

                 

and resting in the trees. 

                  

I always knew I could,                  

but I never told them.

                   

Once someone knows,

they can make you fall.

from Arizona Dream

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in the engine of belief

I wanted to post this last night but COULD NOT get logged in to blogger.

I'm thinking about moving my desk into the living room when we move the Christmas tree out this weekend. Yes the tree is still up. I got started late. Don't judge.

Anyway. Here's the room pre-tree:

And with tree:

So, once that corner is treeless, wouldn't it be a great place for a desk?

Here are some photos for inspiration:

MFAMB sent me this pic when I was settling in at Moss Hill. I have a table something like this,
painted icy blue. It's currently in use as an end table in the living room.

My desk is quite like the one above, only painted red.

Where you from, you sexy thing, you?!

Love this one, too. Sweet, simple.

I may go with something more contemporary, less traditional predictable...

Thoughts?

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel

 that turns the gears

 that spin the belt in the engine of belief 

that keeps you and your desk in midair.

 ~ Annie Dillard 

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offer her a chair

I love a chair by a window, best of all if it faces out.

 mouse over images for source

When fortune calls, offer her a chair.

~ Yiddish Proverb

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dream in peace

Sunday afternoon. Here on Moss Hill it's much too hot to be outdoors, but indoors it's another world entirely.

Calm and peaceful, the dreamy, languid atmosphere is perfect for drinking tea and flipping idly through a stack of magazines, napping on the couch with the dogs,  or watching an old black and white movie on cable. As soon as I hit the publish button on this post, though, there are several hours of work to be done, things I need to finish before the workweek starts tomorrow. 

Recently I heard on NPR a woman speaking about the importance of observing the Sabbath. Her research focused on the historical religious perspective, but her message centered on the spiritually healing qualities of rest, and the need for real rest in today's particularly rest-less world.

"For one day a week, you let the world be as it is," she says.

 "And you be in it, and try not to dominate it."

Although I couldn't be less religious, I am drawn to the idea of planned rest, of setting aside a day each week to "let the world be." It would take some advance preparation to make such a day possible, but I imagine the results would be worth it. Maybe I'll try it in this coming week...

What about you? Do you have a day each week reserved for rest, renewal, physical and spiritual edification? If not, do you think you would try it, at least once?

Oh - and about these photos below? Very restful, don't you think? 

all photos: per gunnarsson photographer

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: 

the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, 

the house allows one to dream in peace.  ~ Gaston Bachelard

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