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Subject: Building a pergola

Judy S

22:32 27/10/1999 

I’m in an open forecourt in front of a country hotel and there are lots of people walking in and out of the hotel, across the forecourt.

Next door is a house with only a low wall separating it from the hotel. There is a woman outside in the front garden. I think how I’d hate to live in a house with so little privacy, next to such a busy hotel. Everyone can see her in the garden.

A truck pulls up in the driveway of the house and it’s loaded with building materials. The woman starts working on what looks like a pergola that she’s building in her front garden, right next to the wall dividing her garden from the hotel forecourt.

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Janelle

17:39 29/10/1999 

Judy, the woman seems to be making the best of a possibly poor situation. She is also not prepared to move away or enter into a life of transiency and frequent change like the population next door. She seems to be putting down roots and working things in her favour despite the busyness of next door. She seems flexible, adaptable and ready to progress with the times. Her "home" or "self" appears stable and resourceful. Rather than be affected detrimentally by the intrusion, she rises to the occasion and constructs something tranquil and quite beautiful in response. Not easily defeated, she may tend to be stubborn or stick her feet in. Her "home" pleases her and she remains relatively detached from the contrasting "home" next door. You say you wouldn't like it if it was you? Perhaps you wouldn't do what she did? Maybe you would. Maybe you have what it takes to rise above the drama's going on for others around you. Maybe you are more flexible, inventive and intune with your own needs, more than you give yourself credit for.

The dividing wall being low was interesting. The woman didn't erect a higher wall - didn't shut herself off, lay down greater boundaries, protect herself through defensive means. She built a lovely pergola for herself to enjoy and knowing others would see her enjoying it. The fruits of her labour. Her needs as priority. Also standing in the forecourt immediately bought to mind "forethought". With some forethought what would you do or have done?

Regards,

Janelle

Judy S

22:21 31/10/1999 

Thanks Janelle.

'Making the best of a possibly poor situation'. Yes, this does have a link to waking life. I am trying to extricate myself from some business ties but things keep getting complicated and I can't make the escape I want. Not sure about 'putting down roots' though - I'm trying to hard to do the opposite, but 'working things in her favour despite the busyness of next door' sounds very relevent.

'She seems flexible, adaptable and ready to progress with the times. Her "home" or "self" appears stable and resourceful. ' I like this! It feels like a pat on the back for my attitude and efforts over the last couple of years. Yes, I do think I have been like this.

'she rises to the occasion and constructs something tranquil and quite beautiful in response.' Well, that's what I'm trying to do if only the world would let me!

'Not easily defeated, she may tend to be stubborn or stick her feet in.' Yes, I do have a stubborn streak when I feel I am being manipulated or exploited.

'Her "home" pleases her and she remains relatively detached from the contrasting "home" next door.' Well, in waking life I have detached myself from the world quite a lot but at the same time I have settled into a new home I love and which is in a very urban, busy location. I do feel part of the world but detached from it at the moment - more of an observer than a participant. And as my detachment from the world is in order to do more writing, being the observer is a role that seems to fit at the moment.

Maybe that's why the low wall and the pergola? So I can see out - observe, watch the world going about it's business but from the tranquility of my own space. and then write about it.

This all makes a lot of sense so thank you, Janelle, for pointing me in this direction.

Regards, Judy

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