The Necessity

As a human I find, I truly NEED sleep.
As a gardener I understand, my hands will get dirty.
As a member of a family, I know I must think  r e l a t i o n a l l y.
As an artist I am constantly compelled to create.
As one who adores children, and their development,  I spend long hours observing.
As a casual ornithologist, mycologist, and entemologist, I must get out of doors.
As a wife whose marriage has dissolved, I must have courage outside many camps.

As an o v e r c o m e r.....I must have TIME ALONE.   This is not only a reasonable ambition, it is imperative for any of  the roles listed above to remain healthy, whole, dynamic in the sense of evolving to greater places of UNDERSTANDING.
One of my dearest friends has no idea I exist.  Infact, we have never met.  She died recently, but left me a legacy of W OR D S that live on in my soul.   She stated once,
       "The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone."

But she did.......and I continue to see how clearly I do.

These are her words:  ".....But if one says:  I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.  What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it-- like a secret vice!"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh knew the secret of "living from a core of inner stillness while actively responding, as we all must do, to the 'here and now'.  She quietly set herself free, into her own life and into all life."

Musing on these things......while I am alone.