Recharging

I've been thinking a lot in the past year or so about how where--and how--you choose to live affects your energies: creative energy, intellectual energy, physical energy, all that. Some places are utterly exhausting, in every possible way, even if you try to make the best of them. (I've lived in a number of those.) And some places that should, or could, be wonderful places of retreat don't live up to their potential if you don't put in your own time and effort into making them so. (I'm in the actively striving stage.) Sometimes you create something wonderful, even if the larger environment doesn't quite sing. And sometimes you visit someone, or you read about someone else's abode, and you think: Yes. This is what I am aiming to cultivate on my own terrain.

Just before the onslaught of all the holidays, I was thinking about all this when I came upon a lovely profile of our friends Roswell Rudd and Verna Gillis in the New York Times just before Thanksgiving that affirmed these thoughts about creating a home that is a place of refuge and recharging. The fact that they have a tremendous love story doesn't hurt, either.

Comments

[Dave Irwin]

Thanks for the "recharging" thought. You have made me realize what I need to do for the next couple of weeks in addition to my normal routine. Sometimes things just click.