Comments on: Keep the world at bay

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:40:19 +0000

That song is perfect.

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:02:54 +0000

That song was my husband and my song of choice last year. It described so perfectly what we felt in our mutual embrace. Easy Silence, peaceful quiet, things that we don’t have until the late evening.

Beautiful reminder, Lindsey.

By: Terresa Wellborn

Terresa Wellborn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:42:19 +0000

I think in that dance, there is space to be both seen and hidden. It is written into the ebb and flow of waves, the moon, our own monthly blood flow. (I feel a poem coming on now…)

Thank you for the thoughts & beautiful quote, I added it to my list of favorites.

By: Privilege of Parenting

Privilege of Parenting — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:16:23 +0000

Whether we go there in actuality or in our minds, sometimes we need to retreat to our little stone cottage, cabin by the lake or cave for hibernation, healing, gestation… sometimes we need to be enwombed and cocooned within the earth to transform to our next Self.

Some of us can’t be alone, some can’t be with the crowd—and some keep passing back and forth. Thanks for talking about what this is like for you, I find comfort in it.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:39:08 +0000

thanks, lady. xoxo

By: emma

emma — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:38:29 +0000

You and me both, chica. You and me both.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:13:37 +0000

I LOVE that Dixie Chicks song! I crave silence in general and that peaceful feeling that can come when the stars align just right. I don’t think it’s bad to not always want to be out taking every risk we can. Balance and all right?!

By: Jo@Mylestones

Jo@Mylestones — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:12:23 +0000

I also gravitate toward safety, and have too often chosen refuge over experience. I’ve been lucky enough to marry a man who is my polar opposite, who pulls me into adventure and prods me to “live deep and suck all the marrow out of life.” And it’s ironic, because he is the one person in the universe who could keep the world at bay for me.
I loved this post. I find myself nodding, your words resonating, every time I visit here.

By: WENDY

WENDY — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:06:14 +0000

good points. I love the poem “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberatly” I memorized that a year ago and keep it tucked in my wallet.
YES I want to live life deliberatly, meet the challenges, overcome my weakness
BUT there are just some days the you long and need for someone to “hold the world at bay” just until you get your feet back under you and catch your breath.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:45:02 +0000

Absolutely. I think my task is believing in the safety of my own heart …