In this moment of need (need to do something, anything, that doesnt involve walking) I've picked up a book my colleague and friend Joanne Crawford gave me recently, titled Simple Abundance.
She gave it to me with an air of knowing: she understood where I was in my life, and had been there herself a few years before. And she came out okay.
She said she just wandered into a bookshop and found it, or maybe it found her, and now it has found me.
Read it, write in it, return it if you wish, it is yours now, she said, as if the world recognised the book should be with me.
Subtitled A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, the best-seller in its day of Sarah Ban Breathnach "is a book borne out of a deep personal need, written for women who wish to live by their own lights".
I've only just begun, the book and the journey, but I like what I have found.
The author identifies six principles that act as guides on the journey.
Gratitude. Simplicity. Order. Harmony. Beauty. Joy.
"These are the six threads of abundant living which, when woven together, product a tapestry of contentment that wraps us in inner peace, wellbeing, happiness and a sense of security."
Pick up the needle with me, she says, and make the first stitch on the canvas of your life.
I've neven been a sewer (that is so-er!) but I'm willing to give this tapestry a go.
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