My Honduran Office
I am back in my Honduran office. I have now successfully (I believe) compartmentalized my life and have donned my writing hat and sunglasses.
I arrived uneventfully yesterday and did get marginally organized. I had a fleeting panic attack when I couldn't find my revised MS introduction and had to email my editor to send it back to me. Pathetic.
I am in Roatan, my haven and heaven.
Before the bottome dropped out of the US economy we had invested in a beachview condo at the blue bahia resort here on Roatan. Check it out at www.bluebahiaresort.com. It is rented this week until Saturday, (one of two of 26 weeks it needs to rent to carry itself, so much of our savvy as business investors...) so in the meantime I am staying with the amazing Nurse Peggy who started a medical clinic here on the island in her kitchen eleven years ago. It is like Grand Central Station...but none of it involves me (except for my propensity to get drawn into conversations...) so I am chugging along. Saturday I will relocate to our little haven which will not have the amount of traffic through it.
So currently my office is an outdoor picnic table overlooking the aqua seas and it is warm. I have organized my manuscript and have four to five stories to recraft and revise each day. They were too edgy. I feel the sharpness as I am now re-reading and re-writing them, and again am in a much more dependent and surrendered place and hope I can communicate that softness of hope and being carried as I re write. Please pray for me to this end if you are a praying person, or even if you are not!
I am singularly focused. There really aren't interruptions and what makes it so necessary for me to so totally remove myself from my stateside life are the multiple commitments and roles I have there, which are slowly being whittled down.
It is the simplicity of life and its rhythms that are so appealing to me here, not to mention the beauty and weather. If I can't write here...well, never mind.
May you find peace and beuty in your day regardless of your physical location.
I arrived uneventfully yesterday and did get marginally organized. I had a fleeting panic attack when I couldn't find my revised MS introduction and had to email my editor to send it back to me. Pathetic.
I am in Roatan, my haven and heaven.
Before the bottome dropped out of the US economy we had invested in a beachview condo at the blue bahia resort here on Roatan. Check it out at www.bluebahiaresort.com. It is rented this week until Saturday, (one of two of 26 weeks it needs to rent to carry itself, so much of our savvy as business investors...) so in the meantime I am staying with the amazing Nurse Peggy who started a medical clinic here on the island in her kitchen eleven years ago. It is like Grand Central Station...but none of it involves me (except for my propensity to get drawn into conversations...) so I am chugging along. Saturday I will relocate to our little haven which will not have the amount of traffic through it.
So currently my office is an outdoor picnic table overlooking the aqua seas and it is warm. I have organized my manuscript and have four to five stories to recraft and revise each day. They were too edgy. I feel the sharpness as I am now re-reading and re-writing them, and again am in a much more dependent and surrendered place and hope I can communicate that softness of hope and being carried as I re write. Please pray for me to this end if you are a praying person, or even if you are not!
I am singularly focused. There really aren't interruptions and what makes it so necessary for me to so totally remove myself from my stateside life are the multiple commitments and roles I have there, which are slowly being whittled down.
It is the simplicity of life and its rhythms that are so appealing to me here, not to mention the beauty and weather. If I can't write here...well, never mind.
May you find peace and beuty in your day regardless of your physical location.
Labels: blue bahia resort, Clinica Esperanza, nurse Peggy, Roatan, simplicity in life, Writing
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1 Comments:
I have images of you by the picnic table, looking out at the acqua seas, and gaining inspiration.
Keep going...(the end is in sight!).
HUGS!
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