Mostly it's been a stormy weekend. Early Saturday morning there was a gust of wind measured at 63 MPH.
During this week's On Being interview with Christiana Figueres, Krista Tippett says,
"When I was growing up, when you were growing up, the weather was a matter of small talk. The weather and the seasons had a predictability that was a rhythm of our lives, and how quickly that has shifted, and we just kind of — It’s so interesting to me and a little bit terrifying how we so quickly move into accepting that there’s fire season."
I was stitching the edges of a cloud patch while I listened to this.
It is the wind season, the season of power outages and floods.
The cloud patch is now attached to my blanket that I call "Peace and Plenty." It's the name of the quilt square that is on the upper right hand side.
(There was another cloud close to this spot, it has been temporarily been removed.)
Somewhere on the blog I know I have shared about this blanket (it's mostly 2 layers so not a quilt) but I want to share again.
It started as a memory blanket for my grandfather. The chambray fabric in the Peace and Plenty squares are from my grandfather's work shirts, the ones he wore gardening.
Originally the plan was to have a whole quilt of the squares but I needed a blanket and started stitching everything that was handy together and they just seemed to fit.
I've been adding patches to it for awhile now and suspect that eventually it will be more patches than not.
It is becoming a story quilt, every patch and mend making the story more clear to me.
I am thinking about choice, and trust, and love...and other things too.