musing: HOW A "PLACE" CONTRIBUTES TO LIFESTYLE

Examples of 'lifestyle' include habits in sleeping patterns, physical activity, hydration habits, sleeping patterns.

Wikipedia defines a lifestyle "as the way a person lives. This includes patterns related to personal relationships, consumption, entertainment and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview."

We 'know' this means tempering things 'bad' and maintaining things 'good'. Bad and good being highly subjective and individual to circumstance, beliefs and choices made. I also want to include a level of privilege.

There are many lists on the internet defining 'lifestyle' to include an active lifestyle, a rural lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle, an urban lifestyle, a solo lifestyle etc.

Its been a long road to this place in the country, in Tasmania - and what a place it is ... we feel most grateful and look forward to discovering all it has to offer. We have been here for 12 months now having spent time here in all seasons, plus the experience of the creek flooding 3 months into our residency.

YES this is my studio ... imagine when we first came across the bridge and saw this magnificent building. We both KNEW it was going to be an art studio - truly, for the months prior I kept saying to V 'I need, I want a warehouse' ! Many around us thought i could never fill it which always made us both smile.

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I had a long list (about 12 points) of things that 'had to go' or be refashioned, in my mind.

Once we moved in ... not a single thing needed taking out or refashioning - it all seemed to fit once we put our things in - everything we had in furniture and bits and pieces found its place as if it were made for it and everything on my list to get rid of, began to make sense. For example that shelf in the kitchen sticking out in the middle of nowhere holds my coffee machine with the coffee pods in a container just beneath the shelf. The other is the large netted structure out on the front paddock - it had to go ... well 12 months later it is filled with vegetables growing madly. cabbage, squash, tomatoes, lettuce, brussel sprouts ... we had corn that was my 'epic fail'. And so it was revealed with everything on my list.

Being our 1 year anniversary here, I am musing at how 'place' is lifestyle, at least for us at present, and how it has improved many of those things on our list that is considered 'lifestyle'.

And to walk across acres of a mix of native forest, pasture (green changing to beige during summer) with a creek (Claytons Rivulet) running through the whole is just magic. 12 months of the landscape captured, below.