Stillness
Posted by Charlotte Hutson Wrenn on December 9, 2011
Your first daily priority should be to stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel. – Martha Beck
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Welcome to my blog about the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a place proud with beauty, history and art. Sometimes we feel a call, to be, to go, to do. I felt that about this place in the American South, many years ago, upon the discovery of a large trunk of letters and photographs written by my cousins and grandmothers and aunts. I was also called to be an artist, and as an old midwife from Alabama said, “If the good Lord wants you to do something, you won’t have no good luck until you do it.” So here I am writing about what I know, about the 'under glimmer' as the poet Basho, says, the way I have learned to see, to notice. I am inspired by, and talking about the history and art and culture of this place that has called me to herself. My background includes a degree in fine arts from a small private college in Florida, and before that, four years of all girls' boarding school in Asheville; I worked as a professional photographer, helped my children grow up, and now and I love seasoned things, good food, better conversation, beauty, my beloved and beautiful Italian Greyhound, Beau. Moved by the sacred places of this historic land called the Lowcountry, I am here in spirit and I hope to infect you with my love of this place.-
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B said
Oh Charlotte, my mother used to be the first one up each morning. Her time to enjoy the stillness, quite of the house.
Charlotte Hutson Wrenn said
Thanks, B! It is important, that early, feeling, centering time:)