Her retreat from the world. Two days hike from civilization – park trail head – cabin overlooked a pristine lake. So clear, she saw the stony bottom; prismatic image of her legs and feet. No cell phone connection, no electricity, no intrusions. She hiked in with the essentials then foraged for the rest. Wood fire to delight, light and keep warm. Her secret, silence space where she wrote. Pen and paper. Visceral, feral, straight from her subconscious. Nights of starscapes; days of whispering pines. She emerged, two weeks later, another best seller in her backpack; nature’s grace in her heart. (100)
For 100 Word Wednesday, week 7 hosted by Bikurgurl. Thanks for another great image prompt!
© Lorraine
Image Credit: Olivier Guillard
Lorraine's frilly freudian slip 
February 24, 2017 at 6:17 pm
Nice, the perfect place to be in the end!
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February 25, 2017 at 8:02 am
Wouldn’t it just be. I hope all writers get a chance for their retreat.
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February 25, 2017 at 11:34 am
Yes most definitely. For some reason I think of Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of Her Own.’ Woman for sure need this special place, but so do all writers.
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February 25, 2017 at 11:38 am
Yes, I think especially women as it can be harder to carve that alone space to write.
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February 25, 2017 at 11:51 am
Yeah I agree. I think of especially Moms who work full/part time and then often cook and do housework and spend time with their young kids, where do you fit that in? Have a nice weekend Lorraine :)
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February 25, 2017 at 12:00 pm
I hope you have a good weekend, as well.
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February 24, 2017 at 11:25 am
delightful piece – the retreat to a land mysterious and all encompassing and embracing – and if only in the mind, then hold tight and slip away as needed :)
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February 25, 2017 at 8:15 pm
Yes, it would be nice to slip away to a welcome slice of solitude offering possibilities, providing impossibilities.
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February 23, 2017 at 4:03 am
Great when the time away produces what you intended it to do….well done…
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February 23, 2017 at 7:50 am
Thank you — I would love to spend time in a retreat like that — wonderful if creativity flowed like nature.
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February 23, 2017 at 2:28 am
What a wonderful retreat! It makes me want to hike out with the essentials and just write it down, get it out, solace to be one with nature….you’re speaking to my heart <3
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February 23, 2017 at 7:51 am
It would be special, won’t it, to find a retreat to write our hearts, souls, and creative minds out. To find solace, as you say, and inspiration in the wonders of nature surrounding us.
Glad I spoke to your heart; I was speaking to mine too.
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February 23, 2017 at 10:51 am
<3
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February 23, 2017 at 11:01 am
Yes. Very special. Very wonderful. Let’s hope then we find it for a while at least.
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February 23, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Agreed :-)
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February 22, 2017 at 7:43 pm
Nice thought to hide away.
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February 23, 2017 at 7:52 am
Perhaps in your new environment, you will find a nice hideaway — a cabin in the mountains with ice cold lake/river and nature’s splendor all around.
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February 23, 2017 at 8:58 am
Oh they are out here. I actually saw one for sale with an acre of land for $45,000 it ‘just’ needed a roof. When summer comes I’ll go up another half mile in altitude to the Rim. There’s thousands of acres and plenty of cabins.
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February 23, 2017 at 10:43 am
Sounds like a plan. A plan I envy. No mystical retreat in my near future. Unless it happens all inside my mind.
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February 23, 2017 at 11:34 am
I’m years away from a cabin. Unless one happens to be an estate sale near me now.
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February 23, 2017 at 12:16 pm
Perhaps a rental for a month (how much vacation time do you get?)
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February 23, 2017 at 12:30 pm
I get 5 weeks a year. By I would member be able to turn to work if I took more then 2 weeks at a time. I had 9 days off and it killed me going back for three days. I’d never leave the woods again. I be a happy shut in. 😃
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February 23, 2017 at 12:37 pm
If you have to be a shut-in, what a place to be one!
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February 23, 2017 at 12:50 pm
I spotted something like a silver of blue in the image. So a cabin near a lake. you could live there awhile off the lake and land
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February 23, 2017 at 10:52 pm
Fish, mushrooms, roots, berries, lots of water — just might be possible (need a few hiked in items probably like coffee or tea)
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February 23, 2017 at 11:49 pm
You can always start with a few things brought in from outside
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