ENOUGH
Slowly, I have come to realise that Secret Hill has insidiously wound it's trackways through my daily living. Initially this was an adventure.
Now I can be, walking, gardening, shopping, reading, talking, being, looking out of the window, watching birds, hanging out the laundry, laughing, weeping, noticing details, taking photographs, thoughtful, tired, happy or melancholic and sooner or later I think, 'I must write that down in the blog.' I begin to wonder whether I live to blog!
I don't want to do that right now.
If I write anything down it will be in one of the red or black journals I have been using for the last few years.
My studio is nearly complete. I want to settle in and work on some of my Mosaic projects. There are pots, poles, terraces, bricks, tables and sculptures all sitting in the pages of a note book, waiting to become real objects.
I may come back to this Hill. I may go and find another hill. I shall continue to visit the Blogs that have become favourites, to marvel at your writing, ideas and images.
Thankyou for finding your way to Secret Hill and walking with me along it's twisting pathways. Thankyou also, for faithfully returning day after day. Your comments have been a joy.
Labels: Being, Home in The Hills, Studio
posted by herhimnbryn at 1:28 PM
36 Comments:
I'm glad you will keep writing. You have a gift. But I'll miss you in this venue . . .
I SO understand, HHB. This comes very close indeed to describing my own experience of blogging and is one of the reasons why I decided to stop for a bit. My pink leather-covered journal - started after I(temporarily?)called a halt to the cyberspace life - is now almost full ......
May your new studio be both a refuge and a starting point for great adventures.
Au Revoir rather that Adieu, I think. :-)
MM (aka Mary)
.. and Secret Hill has been a beautiful place to visit. Sensitive, thoughtful writing and photography. It would be good if you did come back but - of course - only if and when the time is right.
MM
x
Very sorry, of course, but also quite admiring of you for doing it, and for moving on, and having other wonderful things to do.
I've never thought of you as someone who 'over-blogged', lived your life through it, in fact Secret Hill has always seemed admirably spare and selective, as though we just got tempting little tasters of what is obviously a rich and full life of which this is only a small part. And you've always been unstintingly generous about visiting, commenting, encouraging, not only to me but to many others.
I'm also impressed that you have decided to place a higher value on writing privately. That speaks of someone whose motivation is not narcissism or the need for praise, but a real love of the writing itself. It's not something I've ever been any good at; before the blog I wrote in bursts but without structure or discipline and it always felt ultimately pointless, yet now I do wonder if I've lost something by mostly abandoning that to write for the blog...
Anyway, if you do stop, you will be very much missed. But I don't think there's such a thing as a burnt bridge in this particular sphere. Good luck with all your plans, much love to you,him and Bryn, and see you around!( I'll keep you on my links list anyway...)
Sad to see you shut up shop H, since you were my impetus and encouragement to start this blogging thing myself. It has also given be a new insight into my daughter (complimentary statement!)
However, I know what you mean and after some 16 months of blogging I sometimes begin to feel the need for a rest and not to let in get in the way too much of the rest of my life.
I, too, grow tired of blogging from time to time. I shall miss you.
Lucy said it for me. I haven't known you for long, so am sad and will miss Secret Hill. You have great plans in the studio and your notebooks and I wish you well! Maybe you'll be back later to show us the results of your studio work. Thank you for your visits at my place.
I think this is just how writers get. Is it really different to say "I have to put this in my blog" or "I'll have to write this in my journal"? Except that the blog is shared, and the journal may never be read by anyone.
You will be missed deeply. Ruffle Dog for me, I'll miss him too.
Yes, and I understand too. Blogging IS a weird and wonderful experience; it's like teaching and childbirth ( well, slight exagerations!!) and all those other things nobody understands till it happens to them!!
It DOES take time and time is valuable so sometimes choices have to be made.
Good luck in your new stuff.
I just see on Tut-Tut's post and come right to here! I can understand you, but I will miss you so much! Have a good luck in your projects! Nice photo! Looks like Bryn is saying goodbye to us!
understand totally thats why I have so many blogging breaks. I shall really miss this little corner of "home" and your words. Please show off your art/mosaics here..would love to see them. I found myself also writing about the mundane of everyday life, and thats not what I want to do either. I am also possibly getting a studio - we are looking into this next year for the backgarden, and so....with this I say au revoiur to you and bryn...and I shall still check back now and then!! bye.....
Isn't life itself a mosaic? (I'm the little chip of green coffee mug over in the corner.)
oh. And it feels as though I only just found you...
but life changes and things come and go... i hope your various projects and ideas and inspirations grow well, and to go on meeting you here and there, in the web
best of luck. If you venture down the hill this weekend, Miss Feli, Ali J and I will be *personing* a stall at the Subi Craft fair with our wares! we would love to meet you :-)
Good luck with the new studio. Hopefully this is just a short break, I have enjoyed sharing life with you, especially the dog bits.
I'll miss your word-painting, but I can't question your decision.
I can only wish you safe passage on this new leg in life's journey...
I'll stay linked to you so others may find their way here, and I can find my way back now and then..just in case:)
Painful to read. Like a friend saying they are moving far away. Like Lucy I always admired your spare occasionalness here, and am surprised to hear you feeling like you are in danger of living to blog. Though of course I recognise the syndrome. I sometimes feel it as an intrusion, at others a warm sense of 'oh I must tell them about/ show them this'.
H - thankyou for all you have shared. Enjoy your studio. And come back if it feels right. I will miss you immensely.
Oh, that is very sad. I shall miss your writing a lot. I'll think of you in your studio, creating and writing. You've been an inspiration.
When you tire of writing in your journal or need a brreak from creating mosiacs, come on back and write here - I'll check in from time to time. You've always seemd grounded and I shall miss reading your wonderful descriptions.
HHB
All the best for your future endevours. Will miss these posts, but understand fully the reasoning.
Pete
XX
I will miss you so much.
Your posts have been a joy to read.
Thankyou for sharing a little of your skills with words.
Good Luck.
I had sensed this, for awhile now, and I understand, I have gone through these same series of emotions. But then i am an up and down kind of person, one day I am done with something and then I regret it. I actually wiped my blog out, only to find out you can't recover it. So if there is any chance you want what is here to be here, just don't erase it.......because the spammers will take it over once you do.
It has been nice reading your thoughts, I have enjoyed it, sorry to see you go, hope you again return someday. Your friend, nea
Oh.
I understand. But still.
Oh.
Hapy blazing trails and joy in each step.
I will miss you.
Will miss reading your blog. It has been like a window into one of my 'perfect life' scenarios (...there are many, all very different). All the best to you and hope to see the odd comment from you if I should ever get around to writing anything - somehow life is happier minus thought right now, and writing requires thought, so it could be a while!
Take care!
My Dear Ones,
Thank you all for you thoughtfull responses. I continue to write in a journal and feel less constricted doing so. The journal has become bulky with clippings and worn with much handling.
A little more work on the studio this w/e and hopefully before Christmas I'll 'move in'. I will post a couple of images of that day, just to round things off.
Waving goodbye with a quote from Mary Oliver.........
'Tell me, what it is you plan to do
with YOUR wild and precious life?'
Aargh!! After a long time away, I come here only to find you're leaving us... Bummer. Still, like all the others, I too wish you all the best. And, yes, blogging can be part of life but shouldn't be a substitute for it. I'd wish you "kia ora", which can be translated as a wish that you'll be full of the spirit of life, but for you I think that's unnecessary. :-)
You can stop by and stroke my Shadow any time you like. She'd love it! I think she considers rub down time one of her favourite times of the day.
Why is it, when you say you are putting the blog "on hold", that you get the biggest response?
I hope you will be back - I shall miss what's going on at "Secret Hill" (I see it was 38C there yesterday - hope you are sitting in the shade!)
oh!
toodle pip!
go well!
;0)
thank you
;0)
Waaaaaah! I'll miss your delightful, thoughtful posts.
after a pop in visit to my blog the other day, I had to check back here.... I thought and had fingers crossed that you were back with us! sadly not! please show us some of the mosaics that you have been making or crafting?
hi - I have no other way of contacting you, so here is best...just wondering if you would be interested in joining a journalling board..its a brand new board... I dont know if you are interested in journalling or not, but please email me if you are. or leave a comment on my blog. So far we have three ladies there two of us our age. Could be interesting and a chatty way to continue online exchange of ideas. cheers krissie
Merry Christmas HHB.
You are missed. Hope all is well.
I hope that your Christmas was/is a happy one and that 2008 brings you much joy and many adventures.
Lee.
i do miss seeing and reading new posts from you
but understand completely.
i'm glad to know you are still writing
Hope you had a marvelous Christmas
and wish you a very Happy, Peaceful New Year.
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