The setting is a cozy cottage-like home on a large city lot packed dense with trees, young and old. This tiny yellow home has the presence of a solid oak among many other trees. Although surrounded by chaos, it still stands strong. Rows and rows of new town-homes busy with new families and dismembered spirits contrast Nana's place. Nana is the taproot of this home, community and her branches reach far.
Everybody seems to know Nana and respect her as a gem of the community. She receives many visitors, who, in some way or another, seek her advice. In her own, unique way she gathers the information she needs and gives what is needed for the individual; never too much or too little, somehow she always says just the right things.
Listen in on her conversations, as Nana addresses the concerns of everyday life; while a new perspective is shed on them through Body-typing.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll enjoy having a new perspective on life!
Sophia's Tales Introduction
I love Nana's porch. It's the perfect place to relax, enjoy someone's company, or just smile at a passer-by. The porch, has freshly painted, white balustrades that shine like straight, bleached teeth. Nana's little cottage beams with it's cheery, yellow disposition through the mossy trees of the large city lot upon which it is settled. It is an older place of "character." From a bird's-eye-view Nana's place would be an island of scraggly trees among endless blocks, boxes, lines and small green patches. Unlike the surrounding ubiquitous, cell-like domiciles, Nana's a little place anyone can call home.
From corner to corner all you see are trees. Place an old run-down Victorian home on this lot and you have the perfect setting for a murder-mystery. But Nana's choice of happy yellow paint with white trim brighten up the cool, dark shadows of the large, dense trees and add even a certain amount of softness, homeyness and comfort to the hustle and bustle that surrounds her.
This picture can be sweet and amusing to visitors who walk up her short sidewalk; a few barely kept,wild garden beds to either side of the sidewalk and a small porch that grins as one approaches. The face of this two-bedroom cottage also shows a picture window to the right, a red door to the left and small window at the peak. The green shingles are worn with age. The cozy home is a hodge-podge of updated windows, freshly painted trim, rarely kept garden beds and overflowing gutters that teem with leaves rather than water.
Every now and then one of Nana's visitors will help her out by doing some maintenance-a bit of the "pay it forward" concept I guess. I think it kind when those who visit her make this gesture; noticing that she is much too old to be painting the exterior of her house or to repair a walkway.
She doesn't seem to mind the disarray or having to wait for help. She patiently waits for assistance. Even when the roof shows signs of leaking once more, she keeps faith, knowing that just the right person will come by and repay her favors- and this always happens.
So, her little cottage stands in a state of constant half perfection and partial disarray. The wicker furniture on the porch seems to be the same, but every few years she changes it to some old-new or new-old set; re-finding a forgotten set in shed, or stumbling up one at a garage sale down the road.
She used to be very timely with her decorating, bringing out spring wreaths and winter poinsettias. Now, the silk spring flowers may remain until fall and the red poinsettias seem to take a year-log presence on the front step. Thank goodness she doesn't put out a plastic snowman- then her forgetfulness would truly be embarrassing! But, we get along day-by-day. Almost every day brings a new visitor, and new story, a chance to impact the world through a single individual.
Most people don't know much about Nana. To them, she's timeless and ageless; no beginning and no end. No one knows where she's from, when she moved here, or the rest of her story. But she sure knows all about them. She may forget about the poinsettias, but she won't forget you!
They come from all around. They ask her questions, share stories, laugh, cry and solve self-mysteries. They like her because they feel listened to, they get answers that they are looking for, but don't get the lecture that they get from others. They know that their secrets are safe. Only she, her cat Grace and I know what is shared. Yes, many of the world's problems have been solved here and what is said in the little yellow cottage with white trims, stays here.
The stories now come nearly every day. If not for the changing styles of clothing or the dates on the mail that arrive in the black box at the left of the striking, red, door- we would not notice the progression of time. Nana has long since stopped reading the paper; her life is interesting enough she says. The daily media reports history in the making; she prefers to help her visitors make her or his-story.
Insights
Nana is a wise old-woman, so what we notice in her will be mature characteristics.
She has several Earthy characteristics in her constitution: a woody lot, we can assume in her younger years she kept up her home quite well with decorating, gardening and such. Her choice of yellow paint for the house can be a good complimentary color for an Earthy-type for it is stimulating, easing them into action. Green shingles are a nice compliment and certainly an Earthy tone. Nana also has a motherly aspect to her. In this short introduction we also know that she is quite patient to wait for assistance, which is a balanced Earth trait. It's also very common for Earth-types to have animal companions; she has her cat Grace.
We don't know much else about her yet at this point except that she is a woman of wisdom and faith. People come to her to talk, they feel at home, comfortable; something an Earthy person can be good at.
Nana is rather balanced.
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