Just thinking

I like simplicity. Through the years I have gone from being an antique collector, rooms filled with many things, to being a minimalist who prefers empty space with room to move and 'just be'. It is strange how you can be so many different things and yet be the same person. I guess, in essence, we are not the same. Each moment in time we are changing and adapting to this space that we call existence. We are truly 'all things' and yet none.

I find that people in general can be quite oblivious to the consequences of their actions. Yes, it can be quite overwhelming when you actually 'see' how everything in this world connects and affects each other, but understanding this oneness is truly what life is about. We can not hope to grow, actually make anything with this learning experience if we do not accept this and begin to see that it is not just about ourselves, it is about how we manage to make things beautiful between ourselves and everything around us. I think it takes more than one individual to actually make this world the place of magic it once was but change starts when we begin to 'see' what we are doing. I only wish more of us would at least take the first step in the right direction and stop waiting for others to change things for them. We are all part of this story and this is where the big picture comes in . . . we may interact with one another all the time but we must not expect others to make our world, to do the big things for us because our world is 'within'. It is really quite spectacularly inside of you and you are the only one responsible for it. 

I know, . . . heavy thoughts as I sit in bed at 3 a.m. and write this blog. This is the time when the world is quiet and I can let my inner self come out and be free. When I don't have influence from outside of myself, I can truly be 'me'. 

An introduction

Sometimes it is hard to know where to begin, all thoughts are tangled together without sequence, beginning or end. I live just outside of town on 7 acres of land that was once part of a 25 acre apple orchard but is now surrounded by an industrial park. The home, originally built around 1850, was moved from it's original location at the corner of our street to where it stands now, a bit forlorn and needing quite a lot of repair. The sad part is that being surrounded as we are by an industrial park, we are now zoned commercial and this will eventually be torn down and covered over with cement. Our life here will only be a brief memory.

Perhaps it is a futile gesture, but we have decided to live out our lives in this place and are currently restoring the home so it can live it's last years with dignity.