About Me
- Name: Joan
- Location: Suburban Minneapolis, MN
Retired, I'm living with medical challenges. I am focussed on continuing my personal growth and savoring the moment. Personality type: INTJ
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Sunday, July 10, 2005
A Pure Space
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." --Anais Nin
I have had basically the same furniture for my entire 18 years in my home. While the pieces are comfortable and familiar, this place held a lot of painful emotions, anguish and tears in the past. I want to bring more peace and positive energy into my new personal sanctuary, with furniture spiritually clean and full of positive energy.
Therefore, I will be replacing my major pieces of furniture, and they will be of a smaller size. My new apartment will be 580 sq. ft., as opposed to my current 750 sq. ft. This will be entirely "do-able". Much of the difference is due to the much smaller kitchen space needed when in assisted living.
My long, long sofa and large chairs will be replaced by furniture more in tune with my 4', 7" height. My double bed will go, to be replaced with a youth-size bed. The large kitchen table will also go, as I'll only need a table for two.
But wonderful for me, I will be buying bookcases that will all match! My book-life has always been contained in various nicked and scratched, mis-matched bookcases. It was always a dream of mine to have a wall of books in magnificent matching cases lined up along a very long wall. After my downsizing, I will be able to do with four or five six-foot-tall bookcases. I may need to purchase them from Ikea, but they will all match!
The word has spread among my Jewish friends and acuquaintances here about my moving to Knollwood Place. One woman downstairs, Cindy, has been instructing me about the laws of Kasruth, or kosher cooking. It is really interesting, even though I will just be eating kosher, not cooking it. As it turns out, she will be a good resource if I should need to hire help in the run up to moving and later as I unpack. For several years she and a couple of friends had a small business called Rent-A-Yenta (I love the name!). She will be willing to help with whatever I need at an hourly rate.
I spend quite a bit of time lying on the sofa with my heated pillows, blanket and Jenny-Cat. I can be pain-free that way. It's also a place to just rest and connect with my body. Patricia used the term "sacred space" for my sofa. Somehow, naming it thus has made it more truly my place of peace and healing.
I have had basically the same furniture for my entire 18 years in my home. While the pieces are comfortable and familiar, this place held a lot of painful emotions, anguish and tears in the past. I want to bring more peace and positive energy into my new personal sanctuary, with furniture spiritually clean and full of positive energy.
Therefore, I will be replacing my major pieces of furniture, and they will be of a smaller size. My new apartment will be 580 sq. ft., as opposed to my current 750 sq. ft. This will be entirely "do-able". Much of the difference is due to the much smaller kitchen space needed when in assisted living.
My long, long sofa and large chairs will be replaced by furniture more in tune with my 4', 7" height. My double bed will go, to be replaced with a youth-size bed. The large kitchen table will also go, as I'll only need a table for two.
But wonderful for me, I will be buying bookcases that will all match! My book-life has always been contained in various nicked and scratched, mis-matched bookcases. It was always a dream of mine to have a wall of books in magnificent matching cases lined up along a very long wall. After my downsizing, I will be able to do with four or five six-foot-tall bookcases. I may need to purchase them from Ikea, but they will all match!
The word has spread among my Jewish friends and acuquaintances here about my moving to Knollwood Place. One woman downstairs, Cindy, has been instructing me about the laws of Kasruth, or kosher cooking. It is really interesting, even though I will just be eating kosher, not cooking it. As it turns out, she will be a good resource if I should need to hire help in the run up to moving and later as I unpack. For several years she and a couple of friends had a small business called Rent-A-Yenta (I love the name!). She will be willing to help with whatever I need at an hourly rate.
I spend quite a bit of time lying on the sofa with my heated pillows, blanket and Jenny-Cat. I can be pain-free that way. It's also a place to just rest and connect with my body. Patricia used the term "sacred space" for my sofa. Somehow, naming it thus has made it more truly my place of peace and healing.
