EVERY WEEK I AM GIVING MYSELF TWO DAYS TO PRACTICE SOME FORM OF CREATIVE WRITING. THIS WEEK I PRACTICED WRITING A SONNET AND TODAY I AM WRITING IN RESPONSE TO A PROMPT FROM WORDPRESS.

WHAT DOES YOUR IDEAL HOME LOOK LIKE?

I have always tried to make the home where I am living an ideal home. I think that the old adage “Home is where the heart is” is really true. Home isa place where the individual is allowed to create an an expression of the heart, a thing that is of and for themselves, a center of the true self.

I think any place can become an ideal home. It just takes work and an ability to allow self expression.

The Vicarage is a place that has given me permission. to express myself and to learn how to work. I didn’t realize it fully until recently, but my heart’s desire is to create a forest garden in the place I live.

This place offers that in spades. It is enough to feel a bit wild and at the same time gives me room to practice cultivation of the wildness.

It is a place that has made room for my mistakes, even welcomed them. Like our first chicken play pen. It was a great idea, poorly placed. Next year though I think I am going to try this space as a pumpkin patch.

The Vicarage has also given me room to develop my spiritual practice of prayer and meditation.

The prayer courtyard has proven to be a place of much spiritual endeavor this summer. I am even now planing my winter prayer nook inside The Vicarage.

This house has been a refuge from the storms of life for many decades of my life. But I think it is because I have learned to make this a place of powerful memory,

enjoyable work

and purposeful existence

that it has become my ideal home. Maybe I could have done that anywhere. Still I am glad it was here.