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Do the holidays seem a long way back? Shades of Future Shock, where the older you get, the less percentage of your life each day, week or year represents, hence the sensation that time is rushing by as you get older. To a month-old baby the month is 100% of its life. To me, a month is a very small percentage of the total.

On a less philosophical note, worked the “late” shift today and did closing. All I could think was that I needed to be home working on that rush project. But no. What can you do? I’ve been doing more driving with no radio on, thinking about the past year and what it was like to basically quilt full time, working on the grant quilts, and looking for a paying job. Now I have the paying job and little time and energy to do what is important to me. Life is full of complexities. If I didn’t work, no money to quilt, no place to do quilting etc. If I don’t quilt – no happiness, no joy of creation. So the balancing act and the tension that walking that tightwire requires.