The Journey

Good morning to you all!

Today's journey day. I just took a journey (literally) to my favourite country-breakfast spot in Hudson. The sunny, horse-tail sky inspired me to leave my home office and journey into the country. It was absolutely worth it.

The Cafe Campagne is a picturesque stone house that is now a breakfast and lunch spot. It's open from 7am to 3pm (though there are some exceptions, it can be open for parties at other times, for example) and it is the ideal place to settle in, drink tea and eat a hearty homemade breakfast. I love going out for breakfast and I have spent many a morning there writing and reading.

I hadn't been there for over a year and the waitress still remembered my usual order and the owner welcomed me as if I'd only been away for a month or so. You've gotta love the West Island. Once they accept you as one of them they never forget you. A very welcoming community!

The journey wasn't only physical however. Driving into open spaces frees the mind as well. It just feels as if there's more air, more space and more freedom somehow. I guess the rat race seems far, far away when you are surrounded by fields and water. ( I always drive back along the lake road.)

It is possibilities that I feel when I am out in the country. The pace of the country always reminds me that creating takes time. You can't make things 'grow' any faster than they will.

The lake is still frozen over and the little fishing houses sit on it as houses of fortune.

Soon the little houses will be towed away and stored for another summer leaving room for the cranes and geese and ducks that will be returning from the south.

My pace always slows when I come back from Hudson.

Being in Hudson and the surrounding countryside helps me focus, not on the results, but on the process.

Writing is all about process. Process is a journey in and of itself. And it gets you where you eventually want to go. So, I am going to focus more on the process and less on the result. Why?

Because I think the process will always take you to the result on an unconscious level. I think being one with the process makes the result uniquely you every time. I think about the process the way I think about life.

I don't have a plan about where I am going to be in my life, but I do have a plan for where I am.

I am here, in the now. Tomorrow will come and yesterday is gone, but now is real. If you experience the process in the now then the result will unfold.