If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have noticed that I don’t reveal stories that have been given to me in confidence or that I’ve observed in my daily living. I’m aware that this decision keeps this blog rather boring, because, let’s admit it, we love a good story. But those good, juicy stories give us schadenfreude, which according to the Oxford dictionary is ‘pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.’ Without question, that is not the purpose of this blog. Thirteen years go, in creating A Cottage by the Sea, I wrote:
A blog for those who are looking for silence, solitude and
simplicity, and who sometimes want to be alone.
Over the years I’ve tried to respond to those of you looking for just that. My hope is that what I might say will help you make sense of ways that you, with your personality and circumstances, can live into the silence, solitude, and simplicity that you long for.
A blog for those who are looking for silence, solitude and
simplicity, and who sometimes want to be alone.
Over the years I’ve tried to respond to those of you looking for just that. My hope is that what I might say will help you make sense of ways that you, with your personality and circumstances, can live into the silence, solitude, and simplicity that you long for.