It is where I do my work, where I teach my classes, where I spend my days. Surrounded by books and pens, my Beta fish Vincent, my desktop computer, and looking out the windows into my woods. This is the room where I live, sitting at the old 9 foot long antique Farmer’s Table that is my desk and indeed my world. My darling pugs are snuggled into beds under the table around my feet. This is our happy place.
To my left there are always piles of books especially when I am writing and now teaching my ongoing Sunday Night Writing Group classes, writing a new outline each week, I am constantly carrying armfuls of books to my table and spend hours and hours reading and looking for just the right material. There are also books to my right. You can also see my darling Tanner’s red collar hanging on the lamp, he was my sweet baby pug, the youngest of my 3, that I lost in April.
To my right I have more pens than most right-thinking people would find necessary, and they only look this neat because my darling friend Noni came over with the organizers and organized them all. I had lots of mugs of different sorts filled with all kinds of pens. This drove Noni crazy! She came in one day with the organizers she had found second hand and put everything to rights. I think she sleeps better at night now! And of course there is my darling Beta fish Vincent who I commune with all day.
This is also the cozy spot where I will be talking to the dear friend tonight that I meet with weekly for video chats, work on my new book coming out of my writing classes, meditate, read, and even have morning coffee, lunch and dinner. When I say this is where I live I mean it.
I love having a window into people’s worlds, those people that I admire and follow and whose books I love. I thought that I would share my little corner of the world with you today. It is my Happy Place, and so much more.
Where is your happy place? I’d really love to know. Write and tell me all about it in the comments below.
The Experiment ~A 365 Day Search For Truth, Beauty &
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My happy place exists in a variety of spaces. To contemplate my inner world I usually go to the garden swing outside. To solve the world’s problems I weed in my garden. To write and read my recliner is my choice. All three make me happy.
That’s lovely Lauren. For so long my garden was a happy place for me too, before the fire, and now my recliner is also a happy place, I nap in it and sleep in it at night with my pugs, but I live most of my life here in my studio, it is my anchor room, my safe space. I’m glad you have 3 such wonderful places that make you happy. 🙂
Like Lauren, I have a number of different kinds of spaces that make me happy. It depends on what I’m doing. This post titled “Places of the spirit” from my blog is what I can share in this comment: https://naturalgardening.blogspot.com/2018/07/places-of-spirit.html
I’ll put a couple of photos of my studio space and “new” armchair spot in Quebec in the FB writing group page.
That’s lovely Lisa, I just went and read the blog post! And I will look forward to seeing your pictures in the FB group, but hey, I was surprised to see you here, aren’t you on your way to Germany today? 🙂
Yes, but we had a couple of hours in the Charlotte airport at the moment, waiting to board our flight to Frankfurt in half an hour or so.
Ah okay happy travels! And you’ll be getting an email from me in a little bit too! 😀
What is my happy place?
Usually it is my mind.
It starts with an apple tree and a swing on the tree and white roses climbing up the ropes of my swing… and apple blossoms falling around me…
from the swing I can go anywhere and fly anywhere…
usually I start this in my bed .. I love my bed…
My recliner and I have a table with my computer some beads and sterling wire to make jewelry… and journals and over 300 gel pens some with glitter!
My happy place use to be under the lilac tree of my childhood.. i played with dolls there and later played my guitar and sang . The lilac trees were very old at least 70 years when we moved into the Alpine house… I wish they were still there at times and I could be under their branches … I felt so safe and the biggest worry was what to wear to school and the school dance..
One day I will have a whole room just for me and Petie.. no boys allowed lol
What a lovely post Julia. I love thinking about you on your swing and in the other places that bring you comfort and happiness. And ha! I hope you get your room alone for you and Petie, if you live with someone else I think it’s so important to have your own space if you can. It makes all the difference.
Thanks for sharing… 🙂
My happy place is where er i am writing. And of course my garden. And the public library. And my fav coffee house… and snuggling with my hubbie of 31 years… and sitting in my screened pir h on my wicker rocking chair across from a girlfriend, writing together, and tge love seat in the livingroom where i read in tge evenings. I am lucky to have so many happy places!!
Ah dear Ka you have so many lovely places and I love hearing about them. I am especially envious of your screened in porch. I would love to have one because the bugs get so bad here in the warm weather which is most of the year here on the coast!
I hope you are having a wonderful time in Maine. I can’t wait to see pictures and hear all about it! I miss you and am sending you big hugs and lots of love…
M. xoxox
My kitchen table is my happy place. It’s where I sit and journal every morning, where I email and where I have my zoom calls. And when the weather gets cold I sit in my cosy kitchen and all is right with my world.
Oh Moira that’s lovely. A kitchen is so often the heart of the home, and often the coziest spot in the house. I have a little table and chairs in my kitchen but way too small to work there. I need all my things around me. But I love picturing you in your kitchen, snug and cozy where everything is right with the world. How lovely. Enjoy your happy place honey… 🙂
Sotty about the misspellings!!!
No worries honey! 😀