My Blue Castle
"Valancy have lived spiritually in the Blue Castle ever since she could remember. She had been a very tiny child when she found herself possessed of it. Always, when she shut her eyes, she could see it plainly, with its turrets and banners on the pine-clad mountain height, wrapped in its faint, blue loveliness, against the sunset skies of a fair and unknown land. Everything wonderful and beautiful was in that castle."
-The Blue Castle
Valancy's Blue Castle was a place where she could escape from her harsh life and family. It was a place where only she could enter, because she is the one who held the key to it. There, in her Blue Castle, anything could happen, even it if it didn't make sense. It was a realm in her mind that allowed all her to be free and dream.
We all can have our own Blue Castles to escape to when the world is too much or we just want to dream. Below is my Blue Castle. Perhaps, it doesn't have "couches of roses and gold", but each of us must choose a Blue Castle that is stitched out of the soul of own dreams.
My Blue Castle is located on Prince Edward Island in my mind. It is an old farmhouse nestled in the woods, yet it is near the sea. It is a homely little place. Old, but that only gives it character and the walls seem to speak of all the laughter and hope that lived in it. In the back, there is a little garden that grows only the sweetest plants and flowers. The smell is better than any perfume you could buy. There is a little wooden swing with vines crawling up it. Also along the short stone fence, vines can be found. The only days are spring days and the nights are sweet summer ones. And I never tire of them. I will roam the beach, woods, and meadows. At night, I drink in the beauty of the dark sky and dance in the moonlight barefooted. Whenever I want a visitor, they come. On the third story, there is a little room off to the side. It has a window that faces the sea. And that is my writing room. My Blue Castle wouldn't be complete without one. There I can hear the sea singing and see the moonlight shine down on its waves. That is my Blue Castle.
"Every one has a Blue Castle, I think," said Cissy softly.
-The Blue Castle
