A stitch in time…well, a stitch in time takes time. And it keeps you from other things like writing a pretty regular weekly post that’s been a fairly consistent routine for the last five years. Oh, and there were the three graduations and a wedding, trips to NY and CA, lots of wedding . . . → Read More: Stitches
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My parents came of age during the Depression, an event that had great influence on what was saved and stored away for some rainy day need-it-now occasion rather than scrapped. My brother and I fussed and fumed and laughed our way through cleaning out their home after our mother passed away. A hundred . . . → Read More: Scrapped  4 comments  Art, Art & Community, Art & Healing, Art & Life, Art & Metaphor, Art and Spirituality, Creativity, Transformation  art, beauty, collage, creation, creativity, fabric, family, gratitude, hope, inspiration, lesson, life, meaning, metaphor, quilting, recovery, renewal, sewing, spirituality, story I’ve listed to a lot of stories this last week. Thankfully. They were a great amusement, comfort, and distraction as I waited for results of a medical procedure my husband was undergoing at a local hospital. One of the disadvantages of moving away from long established relationships is that no one . . . → Read More: Stories 4 comments Art & Community, Art & Healing, Art & Life, Art & Metaphor, Art and Spirituality, Creativity, Transformation art, community, creativity, generosity, grace, gratitude, handmade books, healing, heart, hope, inspiration, lesson, life, love, meaning, metaphor, spirituality, story, transformation Some weeks you just have to improvise. Too many balls in the air. Mostly fun, but a sad one as well. We’ve lost a beloved friend from church who hosted our weekly Bible study at her home. Valerie never met a stranger; she was so graciously welcoming when I first met her at . . . → Read More: Improv I could barely walk by the time I drove home and got out of the car. An hour and a half nap was immediately in order as a chaser to a couple of ibuprofen. And nine and half hours of overnight sleep mandatory for a woman of my vintage to recover from a . . . → Read More: Unmasked
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just discovered that after two whole weeks of activities and appointments cancelled because of snow and ice, a day-long evacuation of our home because of area wide power outages, the ornamental pear trees in the front yard are shaking their limbed fists in the face of winter; . . . → Read More: Discovery 5 comments Art, Art & Community, Art & Healing, Art & Life, Art & Metaphor, Art and Spirituality, Creativity, Transformation art, beauty, collage, community, creation, creativity, grace, gratitude, healing, heart, hope, inspiration, lesson, life, love, meaning, metaphor, quilting, sewing, transformation, watercolor Recently, a glorious collection of blue wooden-spooled threads came to enliven my sewing stash, the gracious gift of a fellow thinning-the-herd family member. Over the years I’ve not done a lot of sewing with blues other than denim or navy so my selection of blues was, to say the least, slender. One of . . . → Read More: Threads We’re slightly over the sixth month mark in our transition from California to North Carolina. Some of the predictable stressors have come and gone. And we are finding ourselves more comfortable than we imagined at this stage of the game. In a part of the country where roads wind and wander . . . → Read More: Comfort Somethings are chiseled in stone. Other things are set in cement. Which is intended to mean that somethings never change. But sometimes they do. Like we’ve been going out for Mexican food most every Tuesday night for over twenty-five years. And although we’ve found a Mexican restaurant we like here in Cary, it . . . → Read More: Cement Time, especially this time of year, has a paradoxical quality to it. There’s never enough of it as we busily shop, bake and decorate for Christmas. There’s way too much time as we anxiously anticipate with mixed expectations the gifts, other surprises, and even disappointments, of the season. As a collage . . . → Read More: Time |