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Adrift

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  Sometimes, we find ourselves adrift in spite of our best efforts. There can be a myriad of reasons for it. Even with all the discipline and all the want – the need - to do those things that we have outlined for our day, or our week...we can find ourselves feeling lost and drifting, managing little more than staying afloat. (Yes, I was listening to watery music and rain when I wrote this.) There are times when it is life's circumstance that takes us out with the tides. An unexpected change – good or bad – a birth, a death, a new job, a pandemic, the change of seasons...Sometimes it is as little (or as much) as having so much that feels like it needs doing that we are just bobbing in the waves, overwhelmed by the surf and unable to find a direction to give us a place to start. Often the only remedy is to pick a direction at random and strike out with a strong stroke, hoping that a familiar landmark will appear and the waters will shallow as we swim. There are times, ...
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Getting the Lay of the Land

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  As I have been exploring the scope of this place that I now call home it isn't surprising that I find myself with more to do than I can fit into any amount of time, even if I'm here all the time. As much as I hate the reason that I've managed to have the last 17 months at home (the Covid 19 pandemic), I have to admit I've loved being here. I have been getting to know its texture, and been witnessing nature's progression. I've had opportunities to see all kinds of things that I normally miss. I'd like to think that as I continue to dig and harvest rocks and clear twitchgrass roots that this place is working itself into my being and we are growing together. I've mentioned that I've been digging – that has been perhaps the thing I've spent the most time on in the past year and a half. While I have plenty of other things I want to do, things that grow, particularly trees, take time to establish. It took me a long time before I began to have...
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Returning to the adventures!

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  Hello again, It's true, I'm guilty. I invited you to come walk with me and then I melted into the landscape. Really, and on a few of the days almost literally. Last year, around this time I started to get really serious about trying to reclaim some of our space from the twitchgrass. I was working on patches here, and working on reclaiming my neighbour's garden from a couple of years of being mostly fallow. I had thought that when I was having a break from digging I'd write. To some extent, I did – but I didn't write about what I was doing as projects in the space. Sorry about that. Then I thought, well, I can catch up over the winter. Surely by spring I'll have a whole lot of stuff ready to put up. Nope. Sorry about that, too. I spent a lot of the winter developing both my Patreon page and my elfworksstudios.ca (e-commerce) site. I'm not going to make any grand promises here, but I will endeavour to get articles up here, with photos, on a...
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Adventures With Time In A Space

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I thought about starting this blog either last year or two years ago. However, I already have another blog that I don't post on faithfully enough ( http://elfworksstudios.blogspot.com/ .  )   So why on earth would I start a second blog?? Well...my Elfworks Studios blog I try to keep for stuff about the business. Truthfully, at some point I want the objects of this blog to become extra features of that business, but it doesn't strictly apply. Part of the reason that I get so sidetracked from Elfworks is because there is so much of interest in the world – particularly in the natural world. And I am a gatherer. I tend to gather skills and knowledge and history and lore around me...then I stare at them in wonder, and wonder...how can this work with this? What might be created if I added this idea to that object? Sometimes what comes out ends up as something that is an offering of Elfworks Studios. Sometimes it will be a class or a workshop, it might be a new (t...
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