It can stem from many sources . . . Making up after an argument. Feeling understood. Being alone within the beauty of nature. Paying a long overdue debt. Helping others. Keeping on top of finances. Knowing you’ve done your best. Maintaining integrity. Forgiving others. Forgiving yourself. The list is endless . . .
Peace in life, when it arrives, is often too short-lived. There seems to be an endless supply of corners from around which, lie challenges and circumstances that wait unseen. Ready to jump out. Ever eager to disrupt and disturb. Friends, family, personal choices, innumerable obscure situations the main protagonists. All conspire to create worries and anxieties.
Today’s Camping de Guerame is in walking distance of this afternoon’s go to – Le Musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle – AKA the Museum of Fine Arts and Lace. We’re in the town of Alençon, famous for centuries for its sought after hand sewn lace. Its intricate and exquisite designs, often considered to be the ‘Queen of Lace’.
A short video illustrates the whole painstaking process and reveals that one square centimetre can take seven hours to successfully complete. It’s no longer a skill just confined to history. The current generation have learnt and discovered how peaceful it can be while concentrating and getting ‘lost’ in their sewing.
The afternoon brightens and so we go walk the streets. Remain on the look-out for anything of interest. It doesn’t take long. A massive circular building looms large. An early 19th Century construction intended to be used for grain trade. Now utilised as a grand exhibition space.
Today’s exhibition shows off the many talents and resulting works from the huge variety of adult and junior workshops available to the public within the commune.
