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all these threads from unravelling cloth, from bits of floss . . .

WHAT IF i smoosh them together

and couch them babies down along a seam line and call it decoration?

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the R in CQR does stand for remedial, right?

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okay. not that you won’t pick up on this from the pictures, but i’ll say it right here and now just in case: i know crazy from experience and example. and i know quilting from example, experience, reading, and the occasional workshop. but the extent of my knowledge about crazy quilts is 7 words deep: [...]

back in the day, somebody took a little vacation to japan and brought home a souvenir: a cutting from a vine they thought would take root at home here in the south. they were right: the vine is quite comfortable here in the south, spreading out and making itself right at home. the japanese call [...]

moth
butterfly
butterfly
substitute “moth”
= motherfly

travel day today. fingers will be in motion again tonight or tomorrow, giving my brain a much-needed rest.
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chemical changes. waning chlorophyll production no longer produces enough green to mask and conceal the spectacular, bold, brilliant colors. it’s how we are, the women on my tree. it’s just how we are.

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grandmother and her black upright piano. mother and her cherry spinet. me and my baby grand. daughter and her electronic keyboard. four generations, each making our own music with our own set of 88 black and white keys.

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picture that curly red bubble-haired optimistically pragmatic annie who caught the attention of daddy warbucks singing . . .
tomorrow,
tomorrow,
i’ll be back here
tomorrow
it’s only a
stitch away . . .
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sometimes we line the jagged holes with shiny, smooth pearls and tell ourselves the oyster story over and over and over again until we are convinced.

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you can line the holes in your life with beautiful ribbon, she said, and they’ll carry you like a boat in the water.

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