Adventures With Time In A Space

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 (to me) idea for a product or a creation. Sometimes it is just a cool thing or discovery in its own right. Also, I like to facilitate, and to share my bounty and my wonder. Plus, there is a part of me that feels like I should be leaving some kind of trace of what has taken place.

The biggest part of why I get sidetracked is because while I enjoy writing immensely, the idea that I would assume that anyone would want to read my writing feels terribly arrogant. The thought that I feel I might have something to say, likewise. That is not meant to be self-deprecating, it is only offered as explanation. I believe we ALL have worthwhile things to say, but I know that I have quite a capacity for arrogance, and I guard against it. I try very hard to choose my words and think before I speak – not always with a lot of success. Also, I know that I have a rather odd perspective on the world, I am usually not only marching to a different drummer, but also doing a silly walk well off course of the place we are meant to be marching to. And I really try to keep that out of the Elfworks Studios blog.

So again, why start this particular adventure, given all of the above?

Well. Maybe because I know just how fortunate I am, and I want to share some of the wonder I'm experiencing with anyone who might care to join me. You see, it took me a long time to get here, and the route was about as unexpected as it could possibly be. While I always knew someday I'd get back to being on a chunk of land (I spent my earliest years blissfully on 18 acres of mostly swampy woodland), I had begun to hold out hope against it just being a pipe dream. I couldn't see how on earth it could possibly actually happen. I also know that my good fortune came at a cost to another, one that I never intended and while I don't regret the outcome, I regret that there was a price paid by another individual. I also know that I can never know what might be around the next bend, and so I need to make the most of every moment of my luck. I need to enjoy it, appreciate it, work hard to be worthy of what I have been given.

While I write this, the world, my home country, my province are all in varying states of lockdown because of a virus. In many ways, not a particularly new virus, but a new spin on an existing one. Not the most deadly virus we have encountered perhaps, but virulent enough for us to sit up and take notice, and for a change, actually take action....or limit action, I guess. I put this in because I generally write blog entries long before I post them. I try to have a stockpile so that I can post more frequently and there are long periods (normally) when I am too busy with other activities to be able to write. So, I have begun this journey, this adventure...my adventure with time in a wonderful space.

This will be about what I discover as I explore this little piece of earth I've been given access to. It will be about gardening and plants – about digging – which here is an adventure in itself – and planting and watching wildlife. It will be about fortune and misfortune, stories about places and people (who will mostly remain nameless) and what they have shared with me. It will be some of that weird perspective I have on the world and the pathways and processes that I undertake as I move through this time and this space. If you choose to join me, I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I am enjoying it. Come, walk with me.