A pledge: I will never guess how long it will take me to finish a sweater ever again.
Could I finish it this weekend? Yes.
Will I? I couldn't say...
The something sweet:
We've had baby bunnies in the preschool garden. One of the children found this one eating green beans.
Something recently made me remember one of my great grandmothers had a party line.
I vaguely remember getting in trouble with my brothers for listening in on someone's conversation when we were kids. We were more use to a single party line or the radio on the boat.
A party line, well that was fascinating...
This was my last hardwired phone.
I bought it at an antique store and used it for a few years.
And now there is a cell phone that takes pictures among other things...
Who would have thought?
"Scotty, Beam me up."
I found a box of old journals.
Read through the one I wrote when I was 17-18 years old.
Cut it up.
Reassembled it.
Thinking about how some things don't change.
And some do.
This weekend I spent some time looking back over the last 77 posts.
Thinking about enough.
Enough time.
Enough resources.
Letting things be good enough.
(After 7 or 8 dips this is blue enough)
Enough as in "all done".
(Hazel says "Enough, time to cuddle.")
What is enough to keep children safe? To keep each other safe?
So much depends on...
Enough.
This evening I am stitching binding onto the edge of a jacket and thinking about how we are all on edge, all altered...
(I am okay, just tired.)
There are stitch possibilities as well...
Has anyone else started a "vent" journal? A place where your random frustrated thoughts can live?
About a month ago I started a list but keep it separate from my daily journal entries. From past experience I've found that allowing too much frustration into my journal just makes for more frustration.
I'd rather plant seeds of gratitude...
Don't forget to play...
The photos are layered in an app called "Image Blender" and the filters used are either in the same app or "Hipstamatic."
Filters can be helpful to soften edges depending on how photos are layered.
Sometimes just layering one image on top of another and adjusting the opacity is nice, other times I layer image over image. Or the same image with different filters.
There are classes. I signed up for one but never really spent much time on it. I started to play and well... never went back. What I am sharing is what I've learned by just playing.
The class on animation (a Carla Sonheim presents class with Kara Kramer)that I took awhile ago was lots of fun and a place to spend more time. I've been playing with the app used in the class in lots of ways other than animation (mostly as a slide show)...maybe it's time to actually try that. There is an upcoming film festival!
Field note: First dragonfly sighting in the garden.