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Jul
27
this sign indicates both my past and my future. i’ve been relegated to the turnout lane the past 6 weeks. kitchen-sink weeks, i call them: crammed to the brim, leaving no time for stitching or blogging or anything else particularly creative. this-coming week, however, i look forward to days of slow, leisurely respite as i tuck away with cloth and creative writing . . .
i needed to create a tree, but the pump hasn’t been primed in so very long, i angsted over how to do just that . . . thinking almost to the point of shutdown. recent occurrences out of her control have trimmed my friend acey’s wings, leaving her to enjoy what i consider creativity at its best: limits. acey, of necessity, has worked only with materials within her reach, and with that in mind, i reached out this afternoon, picked up a piece of fabric that didn’t require traveling even so much as across the room, and began cutting what i hoped would eventually resemble tree branches. haven’t appliqued in years and was relieved to find that i don’t detest it nearly as much now as then.
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you know … though I’m not convinced I would have *chosen* the way I’m learning this truth, I am starting to think that the Within Reach limitation is something of a magic bullet.
well this is just a lovely and real post and that is very much a tree. not detesting things just makes room for so much more to take its place, don’t you think?
acey, i’m thinking you (or WE, if you need/want some help) ought to start a Creativity Within Reach movement. . .
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well, duh. you are SO right, jude-girl. i hadn’t thought of it that way, and i thank you for beaming me up into another perspective. i needed that. i really, really did.
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