This is a picture of the southern field this afternoon, so stunning!Hello to everyone, reading my first post on my first blog!
I named my blog Jane of the Jungle in light of the wildness of the times we are living in!
Women ( and men ) need to feel good about themselves and to enjoy life. Especially when times are tough and things look dark. Self esteem and self-confidence are important to enjoying life. They are also both precious treasures. The good news is that both these attributes are free. One of the best things about my experience this year is the self confidence I have developed, because of personal circumstance and the passage of time. I feel that I have been waiting to feel this way since I was a young girl, and now I feel like celebrating. I also feel like sharing this great feeling and the things I have learned with other women and hearing their experiences and personal thoughts on style, self esteem and confidence .
I want this blog to become a platform for living with style, whether it's cooking, fashion, gardening, work or anything else, let's do it in style! I can't wait to hear your thoughts.
Do you have any tips for keeping up style in a down economy?
One I have always loved is to make my own clothes and jewelry.
" Style, is loving yourself till' everyone else does too "
~Prince
I love this song from Prince's album Emancipation.
I lived in Minneapolis , MN most of my life. Recently I married and moved to the country in rural Wisconsin. I live on my husbands family farmstead and it has been an amazing learning experience. I have learned how to live off the land , how to make something from nothing, I have learned alot from animals too by living so closely with them which is something I always wanted to be able to do. Living in the country is an enchanting and seductive experience. Now when I take trips to see relatives in the cities I feel that something is missing. I actually feel like I have been separated from a friend. I think that the subtleties of pheasants squawking, deer meandering and the peaceful quiet of wind through trees and crickets chirping becomes as comforting as a mothers heartbeat to an infant
Tonight I am loving that my husband stoked up our wood furnace and the house is getting cozy, as the outdoors gets cooler. The skies have been gorgeous with those typical blue gray, heavy rain clouds and the sun peeks through and lights up the fields. I was feeling bummed about the end of summer but now I have a delicious cozy feeling.
Dear Aria,
ReplyDeletecall me Sandra. I am glad I found you or let me say it this way I am glad you created a blog and told everyone about your beautiful personality and feelings. While I was reading every word you wrote was a confirmation of my feelings and thoughts. After five years of living on a mountain top watching an owl fly up to the window of the house staring at me making me feel the power and beauty of the nature around me, watching the garden grow, listening to buzzing bees, crickets' lullabies, and birds solos and choirs,... well, after all that, the four of us live in a matchbox apartment with no separate rooms and only one window, listening to all the possible noises one can here in a lifetime. The stress is indescribable.
What makes me overcome that stress? First of all, I make myself feel the love inside my heart, not wanting to surrender to this crushing machine called urban-ism and civilisation. Then, I make myself not to forget the fact that by sharing this love and being kind to others will make them feel the same way as I do and inspire them to spread that love and kindness. Oh there is plenty I would love to say but it is time I say good night to myself and go to sleep. I wish you all the love and happiness that you can feel.
Greetings
Sandra
Hello Sandra! Thank you for the wonderful post. I am excited to have you as my first reader. I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts too, it adds valuable insight to what I am trying to do here and it's exciting to hear my thoughts confirmed in return. I hope that all is well with you and I am glad that you have loved ones to lean on in a stressful time, it makes a big difference doesn't it ?
ReplyDeleteI am sorry it has taken me so long to write back, I have trouble with my internet connection here in this rural area, and it has been really inconsistent lately.
Hope to hear more from you soon,
Aria
Thanks Aria for answering, and I think that your blog is wonderful, your thoughtfulness of others, because I think that many people are stressed these days and as much as they would want to listen or help they do not have enough strength because they themselves need to unburden their load somewhere first. That one would be me also. I used to listen to every one's problem and wouldn't mind... now I am too tired and ill sometimes that I have to give up thinking about others and turn to my own well-being. But I guess I shouldn't have forgotten myself in the first place...... Anyway if my talking is not a burden to you, then I would love to comment many things on your blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for your kindness
Sandra
You are very welcome Sandra, I would love to hear more from you, unburden all you want and invite others you know to unburden as well, the more people and the more thoughts here, the more fun it will be for everybody. This is quite a venture for me to blog and it makes it great when you comment! So don't worry.
ReplyDeleteLove Aria
Is Aria and Leah Rosch all together your name or...?
ReplyDeleteOh forgot to tell you... love this green!
ReplyDeleteHi Sandra, Aria is my google Blogger fun name, they prompted me to pick one when I was setting up so I picked it based on classical music, I was listening one day and a song I really liked was called an Aria.
ReplyDeleteThanks about the green, I love it too, and I was worried that it might hurt people's eyes, but maybe not!