After years of daily panic and worry I have found a little place of calm, actually it is a big place of calm and it's all around me. I watched a programme on the Amish and one interview with a man leaving the Amish changed my outlook on life entirely. He said he had total unwavering faith that all will be well in whatever form that takes but all will be well. So now I am looking at the world as a friendly place and one where all will be well, or at least trying to. I am breathing deeply, thinking before reacting, calmly believing that I have enough time, enough money, enough health, enough of everything and my calmness is bringing a sense of peace to the house too. I hope and intend to make this my natural way in the future, I am saying goodbye to the fight or flight feelings I have always had and just 'know' that all will be well.
I am also utterly grateful for our place in life, in Tuscany, working for ourselves with great friends and neighbours and our wonderful and 'tight' family unit. Yes, there have been downsides this week, even tears but the bigger picture is and always will be 'good'.
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| a new cosy corner in the living room |
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| zoe dog waiting for crumbs |
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| waiting for the rain to go away |
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| bread for lunch |
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| making fathers day cards |
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| glitter and glue |
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| scones |
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| chocolate icecream experiment |
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| extreme cooking |
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| wild patch |
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| tomatoes |
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| fruit jam |
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| potatoes |
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| bounty |
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| peas for podding |
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| goodies from the orto patch |
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| neighbours puppies |
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| first swim of the year (neighbours pool) |
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| view from the poolside |
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| his flipflops, my feet |
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| new friends |
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| diving girl |
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| roses and chestnut fence |
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| love roses |
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| lovely pergloa and hydrangeas |
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| lavander sunset |
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| dresser mess |
