If you’re interested in daily routines, here’s a typical day for me at the cottage. Out of bed between 5 and 5:30, turn on the coffee, dress warmly and sit on the deck, just looking. No, no, no, I’m not outside, I just call the living room the deck. At this time of year it is totally dark as I watch the morning twilight and then the sunrise. I do some meditative readings, write in my journal, sit and watch, and pray. Email time is relegated to about an hour in the morning and again at 5 pm, and a quick check at 8:30 before bed at 9. Other than working on the blog, I try not to correspond with people during day.
Although I follow a normal meal routine of breakfast lunch and dinner, by 9 my time commitments are over. The day is mine; the magic begins. I nap, read, pray, sit and look at the ocean, write, walk, work on a jigsaw puzzle, and perhaps cook, but I have no idea when these will happen. One moment I am sitting and watching, the next second I am putting on my shoes for a walk. After finishing breakfast I might find myself going to the chaise lounge for a nap. How did that happen?
When I am at the cottage I never have to plan a schedule with anyone else. I never have to ask, “What time do you want to eat tonight?” or, “What time shall we meet for coffee? Now, these are perfectly sensible when living in community, but it’s just freeing to have some days living alone, when no one knows what I’m doing, or where I am.
If it is your heart’s desire, I hope you can create your own cottage-by- the-sea day. Remember this one? “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Although I follow a normal meal routine of breakfast lunch and dinner, by 9 my time commitments are over. The day is mine; the magic begins. I nap, read, pray, sit and look at the ocean, write, walk, work on a jigsaw puzzle, and perhaps cook, but I have no idea when these will happen. One moment I am sitting and watching, the next second I am putting on my shoes for a walk. After finishing breakfast I might find myself going to the chaise lounge for a nap. How did that happen?
When I am at the cottage I never have to plan a schedule with anyone else. I never have to ask, “What time do you want to eat tonight?” or, “What time shall we meet for coffee? Now, these are perfectly sensible when living in community, but it’s just freeing to have some days living alone, when no one knows what I’m doing, or where I am.
If it is your heart’s desire, I hope you can create your own cottage-by- the-sea day. Remember this one? “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”