TamraOh for a bit of peace and quiet
November 7th 2008 10:00
Do you have a sanctuary at your place? Somewhere to ‘escape’ to or recharge your battery. Do your kids have a sanctuary or simple space somewhere sans screen? Perhaps we’re filling our lives and our houses with too much stuff and not enough space.
I’ve been dipping in and out of a little book about the notion of sanctuary. About how we are often in need of one, finding yours or creating one and what they mean to us. I often go into homes where there’s plenty of excitement: computers, playstations, large-screens, whizzbangery as far as the eye can see, but there aren’t a lot of places that create a feeling of harmony and peace. Hard with young kids I know, but not impossible.
Perhaps we all need to create corners for ourselves to recharge our parenting battery and for our kids to recharge theirs. Calm places, for reading, contemplation, time spent alone or quietly with others. They’re our homes but so often we give them over to some other notion of ‘entertainment’, guests, ‘what’s easy to clean’, everything except what we might really need from time to time: A place of our own. Or of their own in the case of the kids.
Not unrelated is a story I wrote for Sydney’s Child about the incredible amount of noise we’re creating and whether it’s time to turn down the volume.
Enjoy. Quietly. And good luck with your own sanctuary.
TPx
I’ve been dipping in and out of a little book about the notion of sanctuary. About how we are often in need of one, finding yours or creating one and what they mean to us. I often go into homes where there’s plenty of excitement: computers, playstations, large-screens, whizzbangery as far as the eye can see, but there aren’t a lot of places that create a feeling of harmony and peace. Hard with young kids I know, but not impossible.
Perhaps we all need to create corners for ourselves to recharge our parenting battery and for our kids to recharge theirs. Calm places, for reading, contemplation, time spent alone or quietly with others. They’re our homes but so often we give them over to some other notion of ‘entertainment’, guests, ‘what’s easy to clean’, everything except what we might really need from time to time: A place of our own. Or of their own in the case of the kids.
Not unrelated is a story I wrote for Sydney’s Child about the incredible amount of noise we’re creating and whether it’s time to turn down the volume.
Enjoy. Quietly. And good luck with your own sanctuary.
TPx
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