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Me Musing .
. . December
29, 2007 . . . about the year's end . . .
While
browsing a bookstore with a friend the other day (and telling myself
I didn't need anymore books just now!!!!!!), this one caught my
eye:
The Not So Big Life . . . making room for
what really matters by
Sarah Susanka.
Just
after I had finished the remodel on the little 'Studio' house, (about
1998) two women from southern California came for a
Bowl
Session and months later one of them called
and said she and her husband were traveling to Oregon and she wanted
him to see my little home. When they arrived, he had in hand one
of Sarah Susanka's books called 'The Not So Big House'.
I
can still remember him looking at the ways I had used space and
some of my ideas for a simplified way of living. He was exclaiming
over and over and over again . . .
"THIS is exactly what she was
talking about in the book!"
I
had no idea what he was talking about as I had never seen the book,
so he showed me a few details. I had to laugh as my little
house, having suffered from what I lovingly referred to as
'many years of un-masterplanned remodeling',
was not at all on the same par of craftsmanship of those pictured;
however, I could see the parallels.
Over
the years, I continued to be interested in Sarah's books of that
series. For those of us who operate from
‘Bricolage’
(a French word meaning…to take the ordinary,
every-day items at hand and transform them into the extra-ordinary),
it gives us creative insight which we can then adapt to our scale
of re-model, re-do, re-arrange within our own budget.
Back
to the bookstore: I didn't buy the book!
However
for the next days afterward I couldn't get it out of my mind . .
. so ordered it and eagerly awaited its arrival . . . and I have
not been disappointed. It is not a book to just pick and read from
cover to cover. It is one to be savoured, to be a 'guide' and a
'friend' to us.
Sarah's
website (NotSoBigLife.com) is a wealth of information. And on it
I found this idea for a Year
End Ritual from Chapter 11. (I am only to Chapter Two!). Scroll
down that page and you'll see where you can download the pdf instruction
file, print it out and take your time doing
it . . . even though we are in the closing stages of the
last 5 days of the year (Dec. 27-31st), you can fit it to your own
time schedule.
I
always consider February 5th as my
new year's eve, so I am going to set aside time from February 1st
- 5th for this end of year journaling and pondering.
The
real orange wheelbarrow is stored for
winter (with a flat tire!); however, the ideas keep piling up in
it . . .
Until
soon,
Che'usa
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