Simply..a quiet start....

28/10/2018

I just love a quiet start to my day.

I remember last year Lotta mentioned the idea of a Winter Plan and one is slowly forming in my mind. It involves quiet starts and reading some books I've had in mind to read for a long time, like this one which I first saw in the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice in April (a little thrill as I write that - did I really go? Did that really happen?)

The leaves on the rowan outside the bedroom window have gone now and we have had two very cold, very sunny days. I think I will find a new notebook for the Winter Plan

Did anyone see the Orionid meteor shower? Although there was little cloud he moon was too bright. Some stargazing could be part of winter. I will plan some outdoor things to counteract the tendency to hibernate!

What will you do?

10 Comments

Gail

29/10/2018 01:08:44 am

My life has 2 seasons -“kitten”(April-Nov....I do rescue, foster) and rest of the year. I use the chilly afternoons to craft, catch up on reading, napping. I will incorporate your idea of winter stargazing.

Freda

29/10/2018 12:49:31 pm

What unusual seasons Gail. That sounds like a wonderful thing to do.

Elizabeth

29/10/2018 01:43:19 am

I like your idea of quiet starts and a catchup on reading. Have just started Susan Hill's Jacob's Room is Full of Books. A Year Of Reading. Also planning to put aside some writing afternoons and try to renegade with a project I thought about last autumn and out to one side. This October signed up for a poetry prompt every morning from Wendy Pratt.

Freda

29/10/2018 12:51:04 pm

Isn't it wonderful to have projects? It sounds like you have some interesting ones lined up/

cath

29/10/2018 09:08:35 am

My Winter Plan also involves reading (about myth) and writing.
As much as I now am longing for a new notebook - hope to see your's here...- the notebook format doesn't work for the writing I have in mind. It will be sheets of lined paper for me, which will make it easier to reshuffle the writing as I go.

I am practicing a routine of two quiet moments during the day. One at the start of the day and one after lunch. I am beginning to look forward to both so the practice is working.

It is wonderful to read and hold a book in your hands which has good memories attached to it. It deepens the joy.

Freda

29/10/2018 12:54:20 pm

Hearing of yours I more and more think Winter Plans are a great idea. I have a lovely small shelf of notebooks I have bought and been given so will be 'shopping at home' for the right one.

Lotta link

29/10/2018 10:39:53 am

That sounds/looks lovely Freda. (I always like your inquisitive birds!) This year seems to be less about plans and more about an evolution for me - going with the flow and listening to instincts/ideas/urges etc as they arise... but it's serving me well so far. So no solid Winter Plan this time but I do have some ideas forming...

Freda

29/10/2018 12:55:30 pm

I think you are a person who always has ideas forming....

julia

30/10/2018 12:37:52 pm

winter plans! walk every day, see lots of art. read lots of history, sort out the digital research files. and do art every day. oh, and of course, lose those 10 lbs....hahaha..that will not happen!

Freda

30/10/2018 01:49:33 pm

Well if you can achieve all that of course you can lose ten pounds as well! Or maybe five? Join me - I'm trying to lose five by Christmas. wonderful plans by the way.

Simply..a quiet start....

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