We are a house of many corners.
There is the ‘Reading corner’ in our bedroom.
Each corner has a purpose. Yet still, within each purpose was the opportunity to shift. Evolve. Change.
Sometimes, there’s a dog on the napping chaise or sprawled across the couch. Sometimes, the reading corner chaise becomes the pack my suitcase corner. Sometimes, the corner’s are just empty spaces where no one sits, or rests, reads or writes or be’s.
Let’s sit awhile and have a chat corner
Yet still, each corner holds its space in time.
The ‘Put your shoes on’ corner in the entrance..
Sometimes, the space is created because the space was empty and needed to find its purpose or, a chair just fit perfectly and suddenly the corner’s purpose was found.
The ‘Time for a nap’ corner in the living room
It doesn’t matter what use the corner is put to, each corner held space for us, along with family and friends, to savour time. Alone. Together. Apart in the same house. Time to relax. To visit. To connect. To create. Dream. Concoct. Do. Become.
My ‘Creative Work Corner’
Time simply to be present within the moment and space without time or space demanding we be somewhere else, someone else as I explored my creative boundaries, pushing them out to fill spaces I’d never entered before. Spaces, that in their exploration, healing, growth, becoming unfolded with the grace and ease of the river flowing past.
‘I just need some alone time’ corner in the alcove at the bottom of the stairs
Life is filled with corners, straight roads and curves, bumps and potholes, alleys and detours.
In life, like the corners of our home, when we are willing to shift and change, adapt and adopt, embrace and reject the things that work and those that don’t, our path rises up to greet us with opportunities to rest and relax, sit awhile and visit, meditate and savour time alone, create and dream, do and become.
As we prepare to leave this home for another, I carry with me memories of how in each of these corners, magic awoke and I found myself once again embraced by this home we created together. This home that has held us so loving and joyfully for seven years.
Soon, it will hold others in its embrace as they create their own corners and spaces to be at home.
Dare Boldly 
Love your corners Louise 💐
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Thank you Val. ❤
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I love houses like yours and although I‘ve never seen or been there, it saddens me to learn that you‘re leaving, Louise. I‘m sure there are many reasons such as the house getting too big, needs more maintenance and care than you can give, is too far away from facilities or others. And I love all those corners with no or many purposes. I had another approach to ‚filling‘ corners: Whenever I saw a lone chair somewhere, I had to give it a home, hence when I lived in France, I had any number of seating possibilities, once we needed plenty of chairs and we stopped counting arriving at 40! Mind you, there were also wooden folding chairs, rickety ones but then also 2 or 3 real Thonet bentwood chairs – I found a place for any of them! Even now, in our rental appartement, there are still too many of them, calling for our love and attention. Most of the time, every chair is covered with whatever was worn, needed, or not at the last occasion….. There are rucksacks, handbags, any number of knitwear, folded towels, newspapers…
If you don‘t mind, pls send me a mail with your news, why and where, and new address.
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Oh wow! 40 chairs! I love your approach.
I shall send you a long newsy email with address etc. my friend in the next week or two — settling in is taking my attention and energy right now — big reason for move is my husband’s health. Sea level is much easier on his breathing — and it’s already been proven to be true! His oxygen levels are amazing here! ❤
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