Well, today is the last day of Comfort Week, and it's definitely the most challenging topic so far! Sherrie has asked us to focus on image by showing or linking to a picture that represents our idea of total comfort. After careful deliberation, I chose the one you see above. It was taken while we were in Yarmouth this past summer, and in it you see TC, walking with our good friends Blogless Annie and her husband Matt down a sidewalk-less road on a very foggy day (I'm walking behind them to take the picture). Why does this represent total comfort to me?
I guess the main reason is the sense of relaxed freedom - there are no boundaries here, in both a physical sense (road, shoulder, field - it doesn't matter, just walk wherever you want) and a relational sense (Matt and Annie are some of the closest friends we have, and we're able to share just about anything with them). We're not on a schedule, there's no concern about destination - we're in it for the experience, enjoying the journey wherever it may take us (and if you want to see where that was, you can find it here). There is a present-ness about it, at least partly because of the fog, which prevented us from seeing too far ahead or behind and allowed us to be content in the here and now.
To me, that is the essence of comfort.
[Be sure to check out everyone else's images - you can find links to their blogs here.]
4 comments:
Just seeing the picture stopped my racing mind for a minute. What a great time that was!
We're still working on finding work in NY, let's hope it works out so we can see you more often!
Lovely post. I live just 30 minutes from Yarmouth. It's a very nice town.
It's a wonderful explanation of the photo, and a pretty neat photo too! (The no schedule part particularly appeals to me.)
Nice! Can't say I think much of the company, though...
(For anyone who doesn't know, they're great friends of ours, too, and that was completely sarcastic.)
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