Working at a Home

So I'm moving out.  At last! Yes it took me until the last few years to even realise  that I needed my own space and to further my own goals now that I actually believe they are possible and now even probable.

I'm planting up a willow treatment room today, making the post holes, sharpening the end of the willow shoots, all the last years growth, many over ten feet tall, worked into a circular shape with a bulge at either end for an entrance and storage areas.  It's my own design that will grow and create shelter, structure, life.

A living breathing sacred space for healing purposes and for me to live in this winter, as the caravan gets very cold, being a small thin metal box, the aluminium corrodes in the most beautiful ways, causing lumps that look like puffy clouds to protrude on the inside of the walls making raised areas obvious, taking glitter well though.

So the exterior structure planted using living willow will grow, the branches will spread and shoot next spring, adding bamboo because it too grows quickly and fully, the new shoots will spring from the tubours i plant around the base of the ring of willow.  The two biggest shoots over two inches in diameter will represent the hardest challenge in terms of sinking them in deep enough, the great thing with willow is, once they are all temporarily tied together with baler twine, after they root they become stronger and stronger in their foundation.  Literally rooting themselves in to the local ecosystem and becoming part of something.

Once it's taken, by the end of the autumn and the start of the really cold weather I'm going to be so thankful that I placed within the willow sphere, the two reclining lazy boy leather armchairs, that in full recline seem to make a pretty passable almost double bed, pulled apart two excellent armchairs or slouching vessels and so many other thing inbetween, given how easily I can move them around and rearrange the interior.

My stove will take pride of place directly in the centre, such a little beauty, not too big not too small and so pretty on the outside too, burnished and polished, metal like mother of pearl shimmering, the painted exterior looking like kiln fired pottery and the flu attachment awaiting something suitable to take her emissions to the roof and out to disperse at night like so much more wood ash collated in this area over time with the leaf litter.

ok best to get out there and make more than a start and this a reality that will grow and create
a space in time
a place for
love to
heal
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