slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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On May 12, 2024, my sister Lisa and my friend Susan and I traveled from Raleigh Durham airport to London, via Boston and on Jet Blue. I just want to mention briefly that the Jet Blue experience was great for the three of us. We were surprised at how good the food was, and that…
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I haven’t posted for over a month, which is probably the longest or close to the longest I’ve ever gone without writing. It’s not that I’ve had nothing to say, or that I’ve done nothing. All in all, retirement is working out well for me. Time goes very quickly. I am never bored. As I…
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^Today’s stitch meditation Here’s another path I followed away from my funk into creative mode. This time of year a lot of artists do some kind of 100 day “challenge.” I’ve participated in one of these challenges once before but it was for any kind of artistic effort and I was circling the hole of…
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^Pages in progress for the Asian Inspiration board book. I am once again dithering about whether to continue on Substack or go back to only here. Each has its frustrations and plusses. I haven’t been inspired to blog lately, even as my birthday came and went and my 19th blogiversary sped by, the longest dry…
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Other than certain events happening only on weekends and many of my friends having them off, I now understand this. Also, having to check my calendar and my pill box to see what day it is. Geez. I guess I need to register for some kind of class to have some structure to my week.…
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This week I’ve relaxed into my new lifestyle for sure. Tuesday we went to our big used bookstore in town, and we absolutely hate that it will be moving about 40 miles away – grrr – and traded in a few books for credit. We immediately used the credit and I bought two books on…
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I have made a little bit of progress on my tapestry, “Rascal and Sissy Share the Sunbeam,” this past week. There’s more than one reason why I named my studio “Slow Turn Studio,” but a big one is that I tend to choose media that take a long time, and even if they don’t, I…
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Good morning! Two weeks since I’ve written and I have to say that I am feeling better about retirement. Really good, actually. People who know me well said that they thought getting away from my job would be good for my stress level, and they are right. Even though I’m keeping up with the totally…
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The first week of retirement is a wrap now. It feels very weird, but I’m doing okay. When I think too much about it I get a strange sick feeling, so I immediately switch my brain off that topic and move to something else. On New Year’s Day I joined a couple of friends and…
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It’s always fun to look back at last year’s looking ahead post and see how much I got wrong. So much depends on your and your family’s health as you get older. With that in mind, most of my plans are for later in the year and I am definitely making either refundable reservations and/or…
slowly she turned 