Protect Your Time

Fairy Ring?

My Pod Sisters and I are studying Women Who Run With the Wolves and at this point, a section entitled Nourishing the Creative Life.  Clarissa Pinkola Estes, the author, makes many good points, but the one that struck me as most important for me at the moment is Protect Your Time.  Here is some of what she wrote:
I know a painter ....who hangs this sign off the road to her house when she is in a painting or thinking mode:  "I am working today and am not receiving visitors.  I know you think this doesn't mean you because you are my banker, agent, or best friend.  But it does."  My experience tells me this is not too bold - absolutely required to create.  What happens is my own mental state is protected even if no one shows up to read the sign.  Just by posting it, my creative life is enhanced.  The creative juices begin to flow.  Perhaps this need for privacy is why the fairies work at night.  The photo made me think of the lovely fairies who must have been at work to create the beautiful ring of vine I saw on the roadside on one of my walks.  If you look closely you can see light in the distance through the near center of the ring just to the left of the small tree.