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Such Joy

I have found such joy in simple things;

A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread,

A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings,

The shelter of a roof above my head.

And in a leaf-laced square along the floor,

Where yellow sunlight glimmers through the door.

I have found such joy in things that fill

My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace,

A potted plant upon my windowsill,

A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;

A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,

And books I long have loved beside me there.

 Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might

Tell every woman who goes seeking far

For some elusive, feverish delight,

That very close to home the great joys are:

The elemental things--old as the race,

Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.

Grace Noll Crowell

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Hello friends,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are feeling refreshed

as we go into another week of caring for our homes and loved ones!

I have been doing some "house-cleaning" and "de-cluttering" on my blogs over the past few days;

resulting in a combined space for most of the separate 'theme' blogs that had become too difficult to manage.

When I started blogging 2 years ago I was thrilled with my one little corner of the blogworld to play in,

but then I came across so many other blogs that were "themed" it made me think my one space was too narrow, and that I needed to create different blogs for different types of readers. 

In the end, I became so scattered in my approach to blogging that I was losing the joy and inspiration for it.

I fretted that I wasn't producing anything appealing for others to read or look at and this made me regard my blogs as tyranical masters who were never satisfied with my feeble efforts!

Dumb, huh?!!

So.. I am pulling all my stray wanderings together and consolidating my energy back here at what I am now calling Trish's Heart & Home.

That's the main thing I want to share with you all - my heart and home!

I just want to chat with my friends about the little things that give me joy,

 and not feel pressured (by myself or others) to produce a "professional" looking blog that puts me in a crowd-pleasing bind.

I am a simple woman..and I'm happy to have a simple blog that I am free to play around with and use to say Hi! to whoever stumbles across it.

 So to whoever is reading this right now..

Hi, friend!
I'm glad to see you and I hope you're having a really good day :-) 
blessings..Trish xx

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