I had one this morning as I sat in my lounge room having my morning coffee.  It struck like a lightening bolt out of the blue.  As I gazed around me at the “coastal” style I was decorating in, that it, like me, was not my true authentic self.  I love the sea and beach and all that goes with it.  For a time I thought I wanted to live by the sea, but no, my heart is elsewhere.  The beach is somewhere to retreat to, to get clarity in my life/soul.  I have since learned I can do this anywhere, in nature.  Most recently, this happened when I visited a friends farm.  I am a country girl and always will be.  The saying, “you can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl” is certainly true for me.  I am a farm girl in my heart and soul, and, it is what I want/need to be again.

So, for now at least, I am displaced.  In time, I WILL be living in the country again.  It is where I am needed to be…it is my true purpose in life. I need to work with the land and animals.  I feel it in the depths of my soul.

Coastal Girl   (or maybe I should re-title myself to Farm Girl?)