{"id":390,"date":"2009-05-05T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/in-praise-of-private-spaces.html"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:24:29","slug":"in-praise-of-private-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/in-praise-of-private-spaces.html","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Private Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0063.JPG\"<\/a><\/span>Brava to Diana Butler Bass over at our sister blog Progressive Revival<\/a> for her eloquent post on how important and meaningful it is to find a room of one’s own – a little corner of the world that is a solace, a retreat, a place of peace.<\/p>\n

From her post (click here to read the whole thing<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“My family lives in a typical 1960s house in the Washington
\nDC suburbs, and I work at home. 
\n<\/span>“Typical 1960s house” equals small and no closets.  <\/span>As a result, my books were taking over
\nand there wasn’t much space to write. 
\n<\/span>We decided to move my job to the backyard.  <\/span>Thus was born “Mom’s writing cottage,” a 150 square-foot
\nwhite clapboard house with green trim and a window box.  <\/span>In recent weeks, my daughter and I
\nplanted flowers all around making the tiny house literally bloom with
\ncreativity–not to mention a plethora of purple pansies.…”<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, a writing cottage surrounded with purple pansies.  Yes, please.  I first learned the idea of “a room of one’s own” from my mother’s “sitting room,” a little room behind her bedroom that has a door, pink wallpaper, lots of potted plants, a wide desk, and a wall of windows.  Then in high school I read Virginia Woolf’s classic<\/span> and understood it even more deeply.  It is a beautiful, basic human need, I think.<\/p>\n

What’s your “room of one’s own?”  Do you have a special retreat space?<\/b><\/p>\n

(image via my garden!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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