Comments on: No solitude like home

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:54:46 +0000

I really liked your poem. I am a home body at heart and a couple of business trips took me away for a month each.

I need my alone time, so went for long walks, but was really happy to get back home, to the quiet, my own things I enjoy, etc.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:34:21 +0000

A deep and introspective post, Jo. Solitude. Peace. Tranquility. Safety. Makes one realize the importance of others and how we need them in our lives. Thanks for the realization.

Colin
Thousand Oaks Property Management

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:52:04 +0000

Thanks Carson – there’s no place like home (and other cliches)

By: Carson Destiny

Carson Destiny — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:31:50 +0000

Hi Jo Ind like your post! There’s really no solitude like home. I don’t have a baby yet and I really can’t relate with the other comments but I like to share that the peace of mind I have at home is incomparable to any other place. At home, I’m with my family whom I know will protect me as long as they could.

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:35:19 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Amelia – you don’t need me to tell you that I totally empathise. That sitting quietly without so much as the radio on, isn’t classed as anything. It’s not “productive.” It’s not something to tick off a “to do” list. And yet it’s essential.

I also empathise with the ambivalence – both missing your baby and yet desperately needing time on your own. I still feel that, even four years on.

Really good luck with that transition back into work – it’s a big one. I hope it goes well and that you manage (somehow) to find a way of integrating some quiet time into an impossibly busy life.

By: Amelia Gledhill

Amelia Gledhill — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:50:12 +0000

This is the first day I’ve had at home alone since having my baby 9 months ago. I go back to work on Monday and she’s practising being at the childminder’s.

I had a huge list of things to do with today’s freedom but I just want to sit in the quiet. Not even Radio 4 is on!

(childminder juts rung – baby not settling so is being dropped off to me at 1pm. Half excited to see baby and half disappointed won’t have more hours to myself…)

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:11:11 +0000

Thanks Alia. In fact I think it’s an essential component of creativity. But for the past four years, I have only been able find solitude by going out of the house. Solitude in Starbucks just isn’t the same as solitude at home. Here’s to our creativity!

By: alia

alia — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:48:47 +0000

very true and self-honest. Being home alone is my altimate joy. Just hearing the silence and moving in it, its a great fertile enviroment for creativity.

By: Jo Ind

Jo Ind — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:18:02 +0000

That is a very good and very important point. Thank you for reminding me of the harsh and stark reality of too much solitude for many. I shall appreciate my solitude even more now I’m aware of how important it is to have it in the right quantity.

By: Catherine von Ruhland

Catherine von Ruhland — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:25:40 +0000

Hmm. I can see the attraction of home as refuge after a heavy day, buyt to be honest, I get too much solitude. Waking up in an empty bed and eating on your own day after day isn’t healthy. I look at the elderly people on the dialysis unit and suspect they’re better off socially than those elderly people healthier than they but wqho rarely get out of the house or talk to anybody.