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Porch Time - For more Porch time stories, please visit our blog - porchtime tales
We work at home. Most mornings, Mike can be found painting or sculpting by 4 a.m., with the sounds of Hank Jr. or Merle Haggard filling his studio, which once was a 3 car garage. An hour or so later, when I'm up and settled, I call him from the intercom in my office to say good morning. We may or may not see each other before lunch . . . depending on who is working on deadline or how immersed we are in a project.
At the end of the day, everyday, we retreat to the big wraparound porch with a glass of wine for what we've always called porch time. It's my favorite part of the day and perhaps the most inspiring. We bounce ideas off each other, boast about a project going well or complain about one that seems hopelessly stuck. It is a totally safe environment to say anything at all about whatever is going on in our world.
The porch is everyone's favorite place. Our grown children spend hours out there when they're home, often late into the night. Our granddaughters paint their toenails and pretend to be movie stars on the porch while our grandsons run back and forth the long expansion, Spiderman capes blowing in the breeze, empowered with the illusion of flying. I often find houseguests on the porch with a glass of tea or cup of coffee, soaking up the sun and immersed in a good book.
Over the years, we experienced all of life on the porch, from tremendous joy to unbearable heartache, clear epiphanies to utter confusion and ragged frustration to complete satisfaction. Such is life.
Porch Time is a collection of stories about life . . .and the everyday, fascinating and peculiar assortment of people and places that have been a part of mine.
For more Porch time stories, visit our blog - porchtime tales
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
Mark twain
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