Tuesday morning..I think I am catching a cold, as I sneeze and sniff. How does one catch a cold in August? Oh well....
Spent most of Labor Day, laboring. Got the blocks sewn together for the Trip around the World, and am working on 2nd set of blocks, a churn dash. My small part in a huge problem.
Nothing seems to feel normal. Kind of like someone came along and gave the world a good, swift kick and sent it spinning wonky off it's normal-ness. I suppose technically we are not affected, in Wisconsin, by the disaster on the golf coast. But, like 9/11, it feels like everyone is changed by this. It's upsetting in a way similar to the war in Iraq. You don't want it to be your reality. Don't want it to change the flow of your life. But it does.
I begin to realize that these things keep happening, have happened over all the years behind us, and will happen until time is no longer measured. Name it..you got it..the dust bowl years, the depression years, all the war years from the revolt against England to the Civil War to today's war in Iraq. And what can I do about it?
Just about as much as everyone else...everything and nothing. It feels like trying to empty the ocean with a waterglass.
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Oh so well said Finn!
Maybe it is hayfever? My one daughter has it and she sneezed all weekend until we broke down and closed up the house and turned on the air again. She is much better now.
And I have to find out where in WI you are - I'm in very northern IL right by the WI state line.
I think it's not so much about what happens around us, but what we do and how we react to it. No one wants to be like chicken little going "the sky is falling the sky is falling"....running around with her head nearly cut off...but we can do what we CAN do, and DOING is better than NOT DOING and just wringing our hands over it!
I hope your cold doesn't go full blown....Take care of you!
Bonnie
Sometimes, people write or say something that makes a murky cloud crystal clear. That is exactly what you have done, Finn - I never thought of putting the world's disasters into perspective like you have, and I don't think too many other people have either. Hope you don't mind if I 'lift' your comment and re-post it on my blog? Acknowledging the source of course! Thank you for pointing my thoughts down a brighter path.
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