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[adrienmundi]

Looking back over last summer's posts, as well as being out by the stream today at lunch made me realize that sometimes, I need time away from the person-world. The thought that bubbled up as I sat and listened to the water was I like the me that comes up out here. There's something that is easier to acccess (hopefully, not exclusively accessible) away from people. I think differently, feel more confident and sure. My symbolic system is more apparent, more available, as is my connection to ... the things I have trouble naming. I need to remember to get this time, and not overlook the very real need, in the rush of realizing I like people and need things from them, too. I'd like to find a way to bring the me I experience free of person-world back into person-world, to be able to be a more consistent me that I like more often.

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[laughingwoman.livejournal.com]

this is why people had country homes and city homes, i think. and most of the times, country home didn't connote some sprawling palatial estate, but a brick-a-brack, cobbled together little hovel. the humility and spareness of the hovel reduces one to all those positive, internal, quiet qualities you just described.

kind of like a grown up treehouse. maybe that's what we need for health.

this past week i was thinking about going away and not seeing anyone for a while, monkish or nunish, and just shutting the fuck up, in all senses. your post is a much more calm reflection of that impulse.

i hope you're able to find-make-steal some of this kind of space and place for yourself soon.