I love my new place. The light here is lovely. Between this place and I… we shall be doing some wonderful collaborations. I just know it.
How strange it is. I first saw this place over a year ago. Right there and then I knew we had a destiny to fulfil with each other.
It was early days though back then. I wasn’t ready… it wasn’t time… and it didn’t happen. Back then I didn’t know where I wanted to be. More to the point… I didn’t care. So displaced was I.
Then… right after Christmas while staying with my daughter… I walked past the place again on my early morning walk. This time there was a sign in the front garden facing the boardwalk that surrounds the lake. I stood for a long time looking… and then turned and walked away.
I put it out of my mind and flew home.
Then on my flying visit last month… [remember the one week that turned into four...] the place finally grabbed my undivided attention. Incredibly the sign was still there… and this time I just knew. Don’t ask me how… or why. But something told me this was where I had to be [at least] for the next short while.
Like I said before… nothing is ever for nothing. Nothing is ever forever.
Chairs lining up to get out of storage… [chuckles]
The place is still empty awaiting the removalist van on Thursday… but already it feels like home. Already there has been laughter… and cooking.
I can’t help but feel my Dad would have been just a little proud… as trusty toolbox in hand… I managed to conquer most tasks except for Emily’s bed frame which shall for the time being remain a mysterious challenge in the basement until I can figure out how to reassemble it!
The mattress we managed to (girl)handle up two flights of stairs… the infernal thing lurching and wobbling around precariously as one step at a time… amid gales of laughter… we eventually hauled it to the top. I now have biceps!
Paintings… hot on the heels of the chairs… they smell freedom… [grin]
It’s raining today and I’m glad. Huge banks of puffy grey clouds are blowing past the kitchen window and the wind is whipping up the water across the lake. It’s cooler here. And it’s cosy inside.
Earlier I was out in the small terrace garden pulling some weeds. It felt good to be out in the rain.
The sky looks amazing… as does the light in this room. Although way more urban… this place reminds me of the home I left behind well over a year ago… and the lovely light that was there.
I didn’t think I’d ever find that light again. But it’s here.
Somehow I knew it would be… and for now that is enough.
an oldie but a goodie
cartoon © 2009 Jean Burman
If ever verification was needed for the power of positive thinking… positive action… and the extreme benefits of taking the leaps of faith I have had to take over the past 14 months… I now have it.
Just climbing through 19,000 feet… [okay my love of flying is officially now legendary - say no more] I have been away for nearly four weeks. How did a week turn into four I wonder? I am now winging my way home to pack up and move south. I know I know… I said I wasn’t going anywhere for now… but the Universe apparently has other plans for me!
Funny how things happen when you let go… and say yes to pretty much everything [within reason of course]. I can’t begin to tell you how much my life has changed over the past year… and how many opportunities have come my way since I began saying yes to the Universe instead of fighting it every step of the way… which I’ve now realised is something I have pretty much done all of my life! [Grin]
And this especially includes saying yes to a whole range of opportunities and experiences that I might otherwise have thought were not for me. I’ve now learned not to do that… for things are rarely as they seem at first glance.
We all have limitless potential but first we have to get over our limiting beliefs to realise it. All I can say is…
TAKE THAT LEAP!
The only downside to this move [if ever there could be one] will be that I shall have to relinquish… for now… my beautiful tropical northern Australian location… my good friends [if they don't come visit! grin]… and life as I had re-invented it. But that’s okay for now.
Nothing is ever for nothing… and nothing is ever forever!
ahhh… I love this place… [insanely hot here at the moment tho]
What it does mean though is that for the time being I shall have a home on my own terms… and a definitive place from which to go forward. And the very best thing of all is that…for the first time in over a year … I shall have a dedicated creative space from which to work!
Oddly enough this one requirement has become more essential to me than breath… so urgent is my need to simply get on with the work at hand. My creative process has been the one sure thing that has sustained me throughout this transformational period of my life. And it’s this process that shall finally have my utmost priority over the next few months as I adjust to my new home.
At last I shall have somewhere to do what I love to do more than anything else in the whole wide world… when… where and however I want to do it.
Write. Paint. Create. Plan. Dream. Go forward… and move on.
It’s a sensational feeling… almost as exhilarating as those first few moments of flight! (((chuckles)))
With the stars aligned… and God willing… I may [at last] be the master of my own destiny and the architect of my own dreams.
I would have once said “I can’t wait”… but of course… I now know that I CAN [wait] and that now anything… absolutely anything… is possible.
The sky might be the limit.
But the Universe knows no such bounds!
Hope to see you all on the other side… watch this space for updates on my new space! Coming soon.
One last coffee – for now – at the Port Bookshop
[but I'll be back]
