A Room With a View, a Space of One's Own...

Everyone needs views for creative living. Women also need a space or place for their own creative work, be it sewing, painting, planting or writing.  Virginia Woolf wrote early in the past century that women need their own money and their own room (her classic ground-breaking book on women, A Room of One's Own, evolved from her thoughtful lectures) in order to be societally productive beyond wife or mother roles.  An aside: Woolf's classic book, coupled with Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Gift From the Sea, are two books that every woman should read in their early 20s and pull out as life goes along.

Life is a morphing thing. Right-o, westward-ho. Views chez nous are changing: from the beautiful yang views of Manhattan - concrete in every direction - to the mountain and sunset zen yin views of  New Mexico.

 Perspectives -- a way of looking at living. 

Comments

[claude]

You just reminded me of Vita Sackville-West's own "room with a view" ;) Sissinghurst, where Virginia Woolf often visited. Can't remember if she lived there for a while or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst
Anyway, such beauty would certainly make women more creative!

[tut-tut]

Goodness; I have my mother's copy of Gift from the Sea, but I've never read it. And I remember all V. Woolf's books having a profound effect on me when in my twenties. I'll get all books out and give a dust-off.

[mcewen]

Does the garage count?
Cheers