I'm growing rather tired of sNOw.
I never left the house today.
I'd planned to, but there was too much sNOwing going on.
My dad and I had planned to visit mom, but I didn't want him driving at all and I don't have a car, so he always at least has to drive to my house. There is even more sNOw at the nursing home. Hardly any place to park even before this latest sNOw fell.
So, I stayed home.
What did I do all day, you might ask?
Well, if there is one thing I have learned about staying home all day - the time FLIES by. Flies. Truly.
My list of things that I want to do when I am home alone is rather long.
Today I tried to hit on a few things.
Things like looking through two magazines I bought over a month ago and haven't even done damage to their spines yet. I flipped through both. It felt good.
I made an iron-on transfer from a page in Jonge's favorite book "Barn Yard Dance" and started embroidering that. I finished outlining two chickens.
There was even time for piano playing. I rocked the house.
I'm working my way through the book "Room to Write". This was today's assignment: TODAY consider a situation that you had an intuition about. Go over the details of the situation to pinpoint what took place that clued you in. Speculate, in writing, on the unfolding of events that led up to the realization of your hunch.
Oh, boy. A speck to deep for me today. Just thinking about it caused me to need to put the book down and go do something else.
So! I made more button flowers. This time in an old salt shaker I thrifted awhile back. The base is green depression glass. I love making these because they can be UNmade just as quickly, and switched out into other interesting vessels. Notice I am still have a problem with permanence (why isn't my spell check working?).
Sorting buttons is great therapy. Good for my hands, good for my mind, good for doing while processing deep thoughs.
Now I am back to my writing book, and noticing that it ends with a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke:
The future enters into us in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
That just causes me to think, I'm going to need considerably more buttons!
Well. This ends my day, interrupted by sNOw.
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Oh, I know what you mean about reading things that stretches the mind further than it wants to be stretched! Thru the week I limit myself to "My Big Truck Book" and "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish". That's about all my mind can handle.
Even those of us who don't mind winter have had about enough of it.
We don't have the snow here on the East Coast of Mi...but it's so cold, I still don't want to go out. February is the longest month -with the least number of days.
What was Ms. Rilke smoking when she came up with that one? Gives me a headache! Move over, I need some button therapy!
you know Judy, you are like a quiet gem. Your life is real, complicated in it's own ways, rich in many others. I find it such a comfort to read your blog, and I rarely miss a day.
I'm so glad to have met you.
xo
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