An Old Soul

 I am an old soul and often feel like I have been planted in the wrong time in history. I would have been happy to not have the pressures of modern technology and all that they bring.

To see mans lust for power, money and other things spewed out morning, noon, and night over the radio and television is enough to make anyone dispair. 

So I make time to escape to the lands and worlds created in the pages of books and sometimes, those lands and worlds are grasped and turned into television productions. I've recently come accross the period drama inspired by the Candleford books written by Flora Thomspson - Lark Rise to Candleford.

I am hooked. I'm tempted to binge watch it, but then it will be over all too soon. So I'll resist the urge and instead savour it slowly, escaping to a world that had it's own pressures but maintained a sense of humanity and care for the people that were neighbours. 

My daughter made herself a fantastic 2025 moodboard background for her desktop computer...

It got me to thinking that I want to do one myself. To spend a bit of time thinking about the things that are important to you and thing about how and where you want to spend your time. I think it is such a good idea to have something that inspires you, to remind yourself what it is that is important. To see the beauty in the world rather than all the wickedness that is forced upon us on the one device, that I for one, spend a lot of time on given my work. Yes, I think I will take a leaf out of my daughters book and work on that this week.

The garden continues to flourish and I'm taking joy in spending time in the garden, planting, feeling grounded in the things that remain the same and have done for thousands of years, even though the world feels like an unsafe, ever-changing, and hostile place.

I was washing the dishes in the kitchen sink this morning when I spotted this little fellow having a drink from the garden pond. I paused and watched him for a while ...

He picked at the offerings that had fallen from the feeder thanks to a resident squirrel...

I am always amazed by the life that happens in our gardens while we are busy with our daily tasks. Most of it goes unseen. But if you take the time to pause and notice...you will be rewarded with these little cameo moments of lives been lived out by the small creaturs that make your garden their home.

Yes, we live in a very busy, loud, messy world. But we can find peace in the small things every day if we just choose to notice.

Wishing you all a wonderful week.