Thursday, Oct. 13th..an odd sort of a day. Not really rainy, not really sunny. Not cool, but not warm either. Have you noticed life is like that sometimes? Six of one thing, and a half dozen of another?
Youngest son was home for a routine visit. By home, I mean my house, of course. Right now, for the most part, he had no other. There is the house where he is residing, with his dad and the new Mrs. "me". And there is the house where he goes every other Wed. and Thurs. to visit his two small sons. His life is sort of 6 of one thing and half dozen of the other. Do you remember the tree I posted from Disney World? The one in the African park section...that can live 4000 years, and after awhile doesn't need leaves to sustain life and growth? I've been thinking about that tree alot lately.
Maybe we all need to have powers of transformation to survive what comes at us. Some sort of adaptation of coping for the rainy days as well as the hot sunny ones. All that rain out east. It was here just over a week ago, in WI. The county just north of me got 10" overnight. If it had been snow, that would be 100" of snow.
Maybe we are lucky(or wise) to be quilt makers. Almost everything is useful. When life gives us scraps, we piece them together into a whole. The quilt I am showing you today is like life. Any one piece taken seperately doesn't do much, be much or have any great value. But by combinding them, piecing them together with belief, knowledge, patience and love...each small scrap adds to the "whole". It becomes a part of something strong and lasting that has something to offer back to the world. Quiltmaking, born of the mother "necessity" perhaps holds the adaptive key that aids my survival. We no longer need quilts to be made "as fast as I can to keep my family from freezing" nor as "beautiful as I can to keep my heart from breaking" as in pioneer days. But, for me, today, as across the centuries, this form of self expression keeps my world "pieced" together day to day. And maybe tomorrow, for the east coast, the rains will cease and the sun will once again be shining.
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5 comments:
I love your analogies so much! 6 of one thing, 1/2 dozen of another feels much like my life right now too! But unlike the rest of my life, the pieces I put together today, will still be together tomorrow and I can see progress!
Bonnie
WOW - too heavy for this early in the morning for me!!!! :)
Love the quilt!
Finn...
Are you writing this all down in a journal somewhere? (I know it's here...but I don't always trust those "cyber gremlins," do you?) You my dear, have a way with words! A book, I'm thinking!
I hope you'll be getting the weather that we've had here in ND...simply wonderful!!!
Thanks gals, yes Bonnie, our lives are exactly like that, and even a bigger YES, those pieces you combine with thread will stand the test of time and trouble. Sometimes I find it to be a form of prayer.
Sorry Dawn, it was written in the dwindling hours of evening..as the day wound down towards tomorrow..*S*
Thanks Darcie, didn't realize you were in ND..great state!! And yes, we do have your sunny skies today, feels like Oct. with sunshine..*VBS* And no, it's not written down anywhere. I guess those meanderings are how I work through things that I have no control over. I ponder them..*S*Keep up the great work you are doing...I'm so impressed with all I see..*S*
when I am feeling blue all I have to do is take a trip to you (your blog anyway) You always make me stop and rethink whats going on in my life. Thanks more than you know my friend!! BTW LOVE< LOVE< LOVE the quilt!I was halfway thru book and hubby ask to take it with him on this trip. Since he is so down I felt it was just what he needed to get his mind off his troubles. I will finish it when he gets back.... thanks again.
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