Creating Zen

I've lectured my friends about this numerous times. It's so important to create an environment that is your own sanctuary, a peaceful place of escape. Sometime in junior high, on a field trip to Spring Brook, the instructors told us to find our special place, a place where we could reflect and feel comfortable and expressive . . . blah blah blah. Well, as an adult, I'm convinced that we don't make enough time to do that so we have to at least make all or part of our home such a place, such a sanctuary if you will. I could define this, but I supposed that would only really include what I find as peaceful. Soft materials, plants, aesthetically pleasing colors, books, candles, sunlight, music, etc. Everyone should have a place that can serve as a muse, so that creative juices can flow freely. I suppose it's this romantic notion that makes me a sappy romantic. Well, this is one of the notions, I have many things that make me sappy. Off for a walk to the lake to read for a while and redefine further what sappy zen is to me. Oh, and has anyone really understood the magnitude of what Mother Theresa really did? Wow, what an incredible lady, perhaps I'm misplaced and really need to go live amongst the poorest of the poor and help them, and subsequently help myself. Perhaps looking for love in all the wrong places is not my gig. Don't laugh at me, I think everyone has let the thought of becoming a nun graze past them at least briefly! Okay, enough deep reflection for this sunny afternoon!