I can totally relate to everything you have written. We moved back to the country 4 years ago and the pace is so much slower and this is helping me with my health issues.
For those of us that it suits, it is a powerful healer isn't it Lindsay? I am sure it isn't a life that would suit everyone, some that visit here feel it could be too quite, too isolating, and the thought of not having easy access to takeaway deliveries is their idea of hell. But for others, like me, it is a dream way of living and we completely thrive here.
Relatable . Moved for a bigger house in 2013 . Busy main road , pollution , sirens couple times a day , pub up the road . Love the space the house has given us but the impact on my health is a struggle.
I love this post Hun. I've always always been drawn to the quieter places. I grew up in a small town own that just grew and grew over the years. I would spend as much time as I could with friends away from the main town wherever we could get to. Sometimes miles into the countryside. All the back tracks and roads that most people avoided. Woods were a favourite place for me, still are.
I would sit in fields of long grass listening to grasshoppers and watching butterflies and insects.
I often had my face to the ground too, on family walks looking for prints in the mud or things to collect, acorns, leaves, anything interesting to me. One day on a walk like this I was squatting down watching a beetle when everyone went quiet and stopped.....a big white deer had just crossed the path just in front of me. I stayed still, the beautiful animal looked directly at me for a good few seconds and calmly walked of into the woods on the other side of the path. Those moments are the ones I miss the most. They are rare encounters even if your live more closely to nature but they certainly can't be found away from it.
Im ready for the opportunity to move as soon as it comes along. Ready to part with any possessions that are not needed and ready for calm, cosy, fresh air, and just ready to let go of everything that doesn't fit actually living.
When the time comes I will embrace it.
For now I have moved my art space into a larger spare back bedroom which the sun sets and I can see the squirrels and birds in the trees out the window. I'm enjoying earlier nights and earlier mornings of birdsongs.
I am grateful for what we have, very much so but I don't want to stay here forever. That's okay though right.
I am comfy clothes, muddy wellies, waking in the rain kind of gal.
I can totally relate to everything you have written. We moved back to the country 4 years ago and the pace is so much slower and this is helping me with my health issues.
For those of us that it suits, it is a powerful healer isn't it Lindsay? I am sure it isn't a life that would suit everyone, some that visit here feel it could be too quite, too isolating, and the thought of not having easy access to takeaway deliveries is their idea of hell. But for others, like me, it is a dream way of living and we completely thrive here.
Relatable . Moved for a bigger house in 2013 . Busy main road , pollution , sirens couple times a day , pub up the road . Love the space the house has given us but the impact on my health is a struggle.
I love this post Hun. I've always always been drawn to the quieter places. I grew up in a small town own that just grew and grew over the years. I would spend as much time as I could with friends away from the main town wherever we could get to. Sometimes miles into the countryside. All the back tracks and roads that most people avoided. Woods were a favourite place for me, still are.
I would sit in fields of long grass listening to grasshoppers and watching butterflies and insects.
I often had my face to the ground too, on family walks looking for prints in the mud or things to collect, acorns, leaves, anything interesting to me. One day on a walk like this I was squatting down watching a beetle when everyone went quiet and stopped.....a big white deer had just crossed the path just in front of me. I stayed still, the beautiful animal looked directly at me for a good few seconds and calmly walked of into the woods on the other side of the path. Those moments are the ones I miss the most. They are rare encounters even if your live more closely to nature but they certainly can't be found away from it.
Im ready for the opportunity to move as soon as it comes along. Ready to part with any possessions that are not needed and ready for calm, cosy, fresh air, and just ready to let go of everything that doesn't fit actually living.
When the time comes I will embrace it.
For now I have moved my art space into a larger spare back bedroom which the sun sets and I can see the squirrels and birds in the trees out the window. I'm enjoying earlier nights and earlier mornings of birdsongs.
I am grateful for what we have, very much so but I don't want to stay here forever. That's okay though right.
I am comfy clothes, muddy wellies, waking in the rain kind of gal.
Xx