Simple Sanctury

I have lived in a few houses, in each there has been a room I have particularly liked.  You need a space if you can to call your own, a sanctuary that restores sanity.

In our last house before this one it was the lounge - large windows to the front and a small, yet tall window to the side.  This enabled me to lie on the sofa when looking for sanctuary for the sole and gaze at the clouds. 

 In this house, we have been here four and a half years.  My space has been firstly on the landing over one side of the house, and when I worked on a Sunday the bells pealed from the church and clouds scudded past the small window.  That was a small sanctuary space, however my favourite room at that time was the dining room, and indeed was the first room to be finished.  Subsequently my life changed and an office in the garden was built.

The office was my sanctuary, I spent most of my life in there with the cats, had my pictures and everything I required and could gaze out across the garden and be at one with the elements and again watch the clouds, the seasons change and be at one with myself.  At night whilst working the stars twinkled through and on fireworks nights it was a spectacle to cherish.

Life never stands still so another change, and the house changes too.  The space at the top of the house is requisitioned as a bedroom.  With it's cream walls, high ceilings and huge arches of beams.  With two windows to the back of the house- on a level with the clouds and on gazing out views for miles.  The window to the front, with the noise from the street, this room has now become my new sanctuary.

As you venture upwards, ducking your head and  squeezing up the narrow staircase, with a ships rope as a bannister,  you feel the day slipping away.  You are on your own high altitude, with only your own attitude.  You look outward to a setting sun and become one. 

After a few weeks sourcing the relevant pictures, candle holders and accessories, themed to reflect the passions ie New York, the beach, hearts in different configurations, candle holders, large vase full of scented lilies whose fragrance fills the space and I can lie on the bed, gaze at the clouds and forget for a while, the day to day minutiae which frustrate and reflect on the small successes that we all work hard to achieve and  now the room has become.........

Simple Sanctuary.

It takes time to realise you need your own space, your own thoughts, your own mind, to be at one with being  one and to enjoy your own company and balance this with good friends and family who keep you grounded, give you other points of view be there to laugh with you and pick you up and of course the simple sanctuary.

Inspirational Images

My inspiration comes from many things, maybe a poem I have read, a conversation I have heard or people I see on the tv or hear on the radio.  


My personal inspiration image is one which I see normally every day and even if I don't gain my object of desire it focuses my mind on what I do every day and why  I do it.  It motivates and stirs me to perform every day and do my best in whatever way.  


Everyone has their own motivation and on asking a person in an interview setting what their inspiration was and what motivates them, they confided in me that their motivation was a can of a well known energy drink.


Everyone has something in their live that inspires them, even if they don't realise it and it made me realise that motivation, however small or large keeps us going each and every day.  WIthout inspiration or motivation what would we do?


Sometimes though motivation is hard to find and that's when a well pointed blog or two have helped me unwind,  Indeed over the last six months when I have wondered whether I can achieve my goals and objectives and inspire others which will lead to my insprations being realised, I have posted words that inspire me. 


Tomight is no different, after an incredibly difficult day when everyone in the office sympathised and offered virtual glasses of wine to me, we still set out to do the very best we could do but this image sums it up tonight and thanks to everyone everywhere for ensuring that my inspirational image and my motivational flag flies as high as the Olympic flags that flutter in the breeze.