Postcards from the quiet perch...

 There is no easy way to fill in a time gap, it would be one giant run-on sentence (which is normally what happens when this one is excited about something). Rather, I'd like to start here and eek out tiny snippets of what adventures have happened from there to here.

Hello there again! Nice to see you...I'd like to ask you a few questions (if that's okay?)

  Have you ever:

 -Just woken up in the morning before the sun stretches it's beams and listened to the bird symphony?
 -Spent time completely without your phone, internet, books, television, or words?
 - Left your front door wide open during a thunderstorm and hear the sky's rumbling bass and filled    your house with the smell of freshly poured clouds?
 -Had a week to be completely alone? 

 If you have, you're lucky. If you haven't, you should test your wings at it (even just for one day). Luck is on my side as of late (not for reason that would bring heartache but, rather, progress), these are just a few things that have been gleaned from an oft ill frowned upon word "solitude".  Too often being alone is equated with "lonely"... this is a word that should make no sense as defined...

lonely: (adj.)
  affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone ; lonesome

 Most of the time, we are gathered together in social groups. A salmagundi of characters weaving their way in and out of every moment of waking thought (in dreams as well, if you recall them). What about that quiet time...the alone. The solitary bird on the perch. Nowadays it seems nearing absurd to desire a break ( admittedly, the break on this side of the screen was not requested...just a hurdle in the track).

 It takes adjusting (just like when you are settling into your comfy spot in bed) and attention (is it nerves or newness?) to test this experiment out. A day or two to stretch out into yourself (or something along those lines) and shake off all of the daily grind duties. So,  to be trite, "me-time" seems much more friendly a connotation.

m's me-time list :


-work:

                              waiting for bardo - start to finish in studio solitude

- listening to:





-reading:
 
~ Periodic Tales- Hugh Aldersey- Williams

 ~She Weeps Each Time You're Born - Quan Barry

 Maybe a book review ? A recipe post?

What do you you do in your "me-time"?

Until then,
~m