may this dress free you from all worldly engagements!!! (at least for today!)

'prints'  8dec13, the porches, north adams, ma

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, 

unless I spend four hours a day at least - 

and it is commonly more than that - 

sauntering through the woods 

and over the hills and fields, 

absolutely free from all worldly engagements.  

~Henry David Thoreau

I always find that there is a lovely peace that I feel while traveling, my life has been reduced to the essentials in some way.  The white noise of the everyday troubles and demands quiet, even if I am not on a 'real vacation'. Even when there are troubles and demands on the road, I breathe easier, I feel lighter and a bit calmer.  I alway want to keep that feeling when I return.  Usually I work myself in a panic as not to lose that calm, note the irony.  

So here I am again, plopped back into my 'real life', with bills, a messy house, deadlines, digging out my car! and more.  I am aware that to fight to stay calm is an oxymoron.   This time I hope to gently hold my peaceful feeling and to be curious about how this transition will unfold.  I am learning that to be easy with an idea or desire is usually a better approach than to resist or fight or struggle.

I am sensing that a slow, quiet and mindful reentry may be the best path.  So today I may follow Thoreau's suggestion and saunter through the woods for four hours or so, doesn't that sound just lovely ?!?!?

may today you have peace ~ virginia

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