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i have been worried of late that with changing hormones and all, i am becoming rather paranoid.
maybe even a bit obsessive.
but i breathe a sigh of relief as i type this because today - this very day - i prove to myself that such worry is absolutely un. unfounded and unwarranted . . [...]

it comes upon me periodically, and just this morning it settled over me once again: the desire to be quiet. while doing research for the next day’s lesson plan in fifth grade science class (the teacher was ready to retire, so i just took over the class.), i learned that sounds never truly disappear, they [...]

the pollen is so bad here, that on the few occasions when i venture out, it looks like people all up and down the road are cutting their dirt. the air is so pollen-laden it looks hazy, and it is taking its toll. i have taped up windows, turned off a/c and furnace, bolted the [...]

today completely unraveled. woke up wondering how on earth i was going to embellish autoquiltography one without ruining the back. felt like such a boopa that i hadn’t considered this before. so i paid bills and did other not-so-fun things, hoping a good dose of calvinistic accomplishment would buoy me right into a solution.
but no.
when [...]

stayed tucked in this weekend, the goal: to whittle down the mountain range of papers that are drowning me. yesterday i was relatively successful in that regard PLUS i almost finished the “base stitching” on autoquiltography one.
spurred on by yesterday’s progress, spent today weeding out emailbox. i have been drowning in digital paper. started the [...]

My granddaddy’s sisters lived a l-o-n-g life, well into their 90s. Closer to 100.
When the last of the 3 girls died, we found box after box after box protecting new-still-with-the-tags-on lingerie. Satins. Lace. Every color imaginable. Slips from the 1940s that were addictive to the touch. We found hundreds of boxes of Rexall brand tissues, [...]

reading about choosing here at the red thread studio (scroll down to the post on 2/19 on pattern recognition) and lisa call’s articles on holding intention and christine kane’s talk of making a visualization board and the series on the secrets of wellbeing at good life zen led me right straight into a moment or [...]