Our Healing Porch Part 8

[Kizzie]

I'm back on the porch after a long while away and curled up in my chair watching the bonfire with my cup of cocoa and lovely warm lap blanket.  Missed sitting with all of you under the starry sky!

[sanmagic7]

i finally made it here just to re-group, regain me.  i brought brownies and orange juice to share.  just sitting on a lounge chair outside the cabin nearby, seeing the spring flowers show up and dance in a soft spring breeze.  anyone's welcome to share.

[woodsgnome]

I came here with no intentions, with just the knowledge that there'd be something needed.

And that's what happened today -- I needed to find someone else, not searching for anything more than ourselves; and that's a lot, actually. Here it's a given that we can feel, and revel, in the freedom to find delight with the world.

The muffins and orange juice are great complimentary treats, but the highlight is finding someone else today -- someone who gets it (no explanations needed).

Thank you for being here, and for the invitation to join the dance. And now ... 

[Armee]

I'm enjoying the sounds of the song birds in a big floofy beanbag chair across the porch.

[BecomingMe]

I stopped by today for the first time and it feels good to be with everyone else here. I'm crying a lot but healing tears and I don't feel as alone as i have been. I may even be able to sleep tonight 

[Armee]

Sweet dreams. It's warm and safe and there are hammocks here. 

[BecomingMe]

Sweet dreams. It's warm and safe and there are hammocks here. 

Thanks Armee - I had the best sleep in over a week - I shall have to visit more often 

[sanmagic7]

so glad this is here, still up and running, so to speak.  i'm going thru w/drawal from my ex and my meds, and i need a lovely, safe place to hang out while the poison is leaving my body. just want to listen to the small waves lapping the shore, listen to the birds, rock on the porch, snooze till i come back to my self.

[Armee]

There's a little kid part of me who needs to hang out here today someplace safe while I do adult things. She's sitting in the grass playing with the butterflies and bugs and flowers and humming to herself. She won't need anything from anybody. She's just there in peace. I might send her a surprise puppy later.

[Dina]

I was just reading the first Healing porch description and I am in tears, happy tears. That's exactly where I needed to be right now. A peaceful place, a place I've dreamed for so long, a place with people who understand, a place where I feel I belong! What a wonderful gift!
 

[woodsgnome]

It''s been a while -- too long, really; since I've set out to spend some time here.

First stop -- get the supplies readied for my visit. I love to split wood a for campfire in case others want to share its warmth as the evening cools.

And for sure today I've brought the bag of compost for the garden. Compost, the waste material whose decaying nutrients will mix into this year's blend of seeds and other plantings for the season's growth.

Soon the transformation will start as new growth, sprouting forth beautiful new plants while anticipaing the transformation of the soil yet again.

I can't help but think of how this process, including the rotting compost, resembles my own efforts to discard my old story. Reminds me, too, of Mary Lennox and the excitement she found planting her own secret garden.

May this one follow her example of pluck and determination to find new meaning for life's new growth cycle. 

The best is yet to come -- is that Robin's song I'm hearing? Familiar -- yet new, singing a welcome to new life. And I'm included.

[Chart]

What a wonderful discovery this first of May. I'm gobsmacked as the brits would say. Would you believe I'm sitting at my front door wide open looking out over my (unmowed) garden and just wandering around the forum and I stumble upon this thread!?!?
How happy does that make me!!!
It's raining ever so gentle but neither hot nor cold. I'm washing in and out of thoughts and feelings and the past and the future and suddenly I've tripped over the present. The mint wafts up into my nostrils with the humid breeze. I'm with you all and so happy to not be alone.

[Kizzie]

It is lovely isn't it?!

[sanmagic7]

indeed, it is lovely.  i'm back, going thru w/drawal, just need a quiet, safe place to let my body do its thing.  this is the healing porch, after all, and i just let out a sigh of relief it's here.  i'm sitting in the cabin off to the side of the original porch, listening to the birds and insects, breeze thru the trees, a lovely fire, and a book i haven't read in a while. mmmm . . .

[Kizzie]

That sounds lovely San.

I love the sounds of all the song birds, frogs not so much.