Eleven years ago, on a Monday, I woke up for my first morning at my cottage by the sea, the cottage I would rent for the next five winters. Ten years ago, on November 20, 2010 I started this blog. I thought carefully before deciding what it would be about: A blog for those who are looking for silence, solitude and simplicity, and who sometimes want to be alone.
As I look back, I’m surprise at that choice because at the time I wasn’t conscious of that longing. I always had friends and like to do things socially—I still do. But as I reminisce, which I do more and more as I get older, my memories, all very visual, are of me happily alone—playing in the woods and in my bedroom, spying on the apartments across the street from my Grandmother’s Brooklyn apartment, walking the streets of Florence when I was there in college…. From time to time friends appear, but what matters, is that I am in my own solitary world. So, here is to a few of those morning sunrises!
As I look back, I’m surprise at that choice because at the time I wasn’t conscious of that longing. I always had friends and like to do things socially—I still do. But as I reminisce, which I do more and more as I get older, my memories, all very visual, are of me happily alone—playing in the woods and in my bedroom, spying on the apartments across the street from my Grandmother’s Brooklyn apartment, walking the streets of Florence when I was there in college…. From time to time friends appear, but what matters, is that I am in my own solitary world. So, here is to a few of those morning sunrises!