I'm SO sure that most of you don't have old
(August 1993)
issues of magazines hanging around your house.
Well, I do.
Not many--but a few select ones--in a few choice spots.
Most of the time, I feel slightly embarrassed about it.
But this time, I'd like to share a sentence from one.
The farmhouse seemed a retreat far from the world—
a place where an ascetic aristocrat might
retire
to read philosophy and reorder his soul.
I think the words retire, read and reorder
are what caught my attention.
Right now, I'm just rolling them around in my mind.
Tomorrow (and for a few days) God-willing,
I will have time to do just that.
Can't wait.
Wherever I sit very often there are stacks of things - books, magazines, paper, things to write and underline with. I literally make a nest! Hope you are well.
ReplyDeleteI AM well, Myra....and I have stacks and nests, too.
DeleteI like old magazines. My mother has a lot of them I reread. They always seem "new" to me. I'm a nester, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm like you, Pamela. The ones I've kept, I reread and they DO always seem "new" to me.
DeleteOh, I'm a lover of old magazines. I buy often old magazines in the 'kringloop' store.I near the fireplace and read. So, do you want an old Dutch magazine about country life? I send it to you from the Netherlands. I think you'll love it :-)
ReplyDeleteOh! That would be incredible (an old Dutch magazine)....and having a fireplace with actual fire is still only a dream for me....
DeleteEnjoy your three R's Rebecca! I do keep old magazines! smile~
ReplyDeleteI'm in great company :)
DeleteI have magazines from the 80's! I keep most December issues of Country Living (remember me and Christmas!) and the "timeless" ones like Colonial Homes (magazine now defunct) and Early American Life (a friend gave me a subscription for Christmas!) I have a drawer where I keep the ones I can't part with and look at them often. I have a couple Life Magazines from the year I was born and love looking through that over and over! And I definitely could use a RETREAT where I could (temporarily) RETIRE from the world to READ and REORDER my soul. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI have magazines from the 80's! I keep most December issues of Country Living (remember me and Christmas!) and the "timeless" ones like Colonial Homes (magazine now defunct) and Early American Life (a friend gave me a subscription for Christmas!) I have a drawer where I keep the ones I can't part with and look at them often. I have a couple Life Magazines from the year I was born and love looking through that over and over! And I definitely could use a RETREAT where I could (temporarily) RETIRE from the world to READ and REORDER my soul. Love it!
ReplyDeleteA drawer would definitely NOT hold my old magazines.
DeleteI keep mine till my daughter and friends come over and confiscate them with my permission...then they keep them and I look at them when at their house...sometimes I bring them back and keep them till time passes and they want them again LOL...
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