The healing porch

[Elphanigh]

Glad to be here resting with you. Let me know if you need tea, or snacks. I feel the need to wander around and be of some help to everyone today

[Wife#2]

I'm ready for a board game if anyone is up to joining me. I'd love some chamomile tea if that's being offered, thank you El 

Dialing back the intensity, ready to just be and try to remember the rules to this board game..... Any takers on backgammon?

[Elphanigh]

I will definitely bring chamomile  I make a great cup of tea. Also, will gladly in you for that broad game. I don't know the rules anymore though.

[Sceal]

Wife#2, I'm ready for some backgammon! And a magic potion to get rid of headaches 

[Blueberry]

I'm going to come and sit out here, wrapped up in a blanket. I'm not feeling very well physically, though really it's nothing much. But nice to sit outdoors and maybe not be so alone. I've been drinking sage tea today, so I'll continue that out here too. It's a medicinal tea for me.

[Sceal]

I'll be here today. Wandering down by the shore, and later have a cup of chili-apple non-alcoholic cider. I'm feeling a little melancholic today

[goblinchild]

I find a spot on the healing porch facing the forest, with a blanket that banishes anxiety completely. I imagine the porch and forest are lit with late afternoon half-light. There are fairy lights hung on the porch and the warming glow of tiki lights in the lawn. I enjoy the coolness rising from the forest on the winds coming from the ocean.  From the forest, there is birdsong and grasshopper chirping mingling with the distant sound of crashing waves. The fireflies are just starting to float out from the trees and rise from the lawn.
My blanket smells strongly of minty Tibetan lavender. I have a large rustic mug that seems deep and endless with whatever drink takes my fancy. Aromatic steam curls up from it unceasingly. I feel comfortable, confidently at-ease and deeply rested. The seat I'm curled up in is cushy and there is catnip on the porch for wandering furry visitors.

[Wife#2]

Welcome, Goblinchild. What a wonderful expression of the porch and the peace and healing it's meant to bring. I would love to enjoy your vision - to just breathe in the lavender, feel the timelessness of the ocean, feel the calm of the forest and the beauty of the fireflies. :: nods:: yes, this is the type of healing I envisioned when I thought of the healing porch.

Welcome and thank you for the beautiful description of your porch experience.

[EliseB]

Thank you for this place of healing.  I like to think there might be a chance of real fairies out there in the trees, along with the fairy lights on the porch. I would like to come sit here with a cup of hot tea and a warm robe around me, facing the ocean and feeling the clean breeze wash over me. There will be no allergies and no headaches and no muscle tension. My cat will sit snuggling beneath my feet, while I listen to the waves.

I think I might shed a few tears while I watch the ocean, but it wouldn't last for long. I think my grandmother would join me at some point, and we'd sit together like we did so often during my childhood. She was an anchor of goodness for me back then, and I still think of her often even now, long after she passed on.  Then I would like the people I love in this world to join us, my family and friends. A board game would be nice, or maybe some singing like we used to do.  A bon fire after sunset sounds nice... watching the eternal fascination of the flames, and the smoke rising up towards the stars.

[hank]

I am assuming that the porch is a wrap-around porch, so I will be missing the winter and looking up to the snow capped peaks hoping for a fresh snow, to dampen all the noise of the city. Wrapped up in fur and with my dog roaming the grounds, there ain't anything that will disturb me in such a setting. All the worries of the world stop at the edge of of the lands of healing.

[Wife#2]

Welcome Hank! If you've been reading, then you know this place has all the magic you need to create your relaxing place on the healing porch. Yes, it does indeed wrap around. Some sections are screened in, others don't even have a roof. The porch is deep and wide, accommodating all who want to join us.

I am glad you remembered to bring your faithful pet. He reminds me of my own 50lb, 6 month old bull/collie mutt. He's claimed me as his human and he is precious to me, with those sad, loving eyes.

Enjoy the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the warmth of the many healing blankets strewn around this porch. We're glad you're here.

[alliematt]

I need a hammock with a healing blanket.  And chocolate.  And a long, restful sleep.

[Blueberry]

There's definitely a hammock, alliematt, because I've been in it before! But it's free for you because you need it. There's even a tree that grows chocolate the way other trees have leaves. Have a good 

[Sceal]

I am doing to wander off into the forest and play with the foxes. I've had enough of demanding and prodding people for one week. 

[Elphanigh]

I am going to sit on the porch, on the steps over looking the side with water. Nice to be a bit mor grounded in that spot. I will be warmed by a blanket hugging me around my shoulders. This blanket is one of comfort and peace, tw things I am finding difficult today.

My cat Thalia is going to come snuggle next to me on her own blanket (she rarely lays anywhere that doesn't have one). Think when I am feeling better I might try playing music here, very quietly. The porch is magical so it won't be able to be heard if you don't have want to. Also its magic may help me to play with peace for once.

I am also going to make some good chamomile tea if anyone wants anything