It’s cold. The snow is like concrete but the sun was bright. Since anything other than winter seems far off, it must be a good day for a walk! Ron went on, I turned back to take my time and shoot some photos, and the first thing I see is a big red fox. No photos but we spent some time eyeing each other.
Re the whole vacation debacle – let this be a warning to you all: Don’t get out of the habit of going on vacation, no matter how routine they may seem, lest you forget how to take a vacation all together.
Instead of the winter lull, a moment of surprising personal discovery. I already knew that even though I have travelled a little, travelling isn’t something that I aspire to. I admire my friends who hop on planes and ships and go to warm places when it’s cold and interesting places at the drop of a hat. I’ve just never gotten an itch to do that. Yes I’d like to go to some interesting places, but a fear that I’d end up on a 17-city, 12 day tour, with connecting flights that take off and land in the either the wee hours or smack in the afternoon scares the bejeepers out of me.
Where was I? oh yeah, personal discovery.
What I mainly discovered this week was some deep personal flaw has put me in a state where I really really really need a vacation. A break. A recharging of my battery pack. blah blah blah. And yet even as I mock the ads touting Florida (oooooh, someone squeals in the ad, I went zooming across the everglades on an airboat – what a great vacation!) I realize that there just isn’t much I want to go away to do. What DO I want to do? And why isn’t there some deep longing that needs satisfying? Now, that really scares the bejeepers out of me big time!
One might say – well rent a cabin somewhere and hole up with your sewing machine! Now why do I need to pack up everything, schlep it to who knows where and unpack it. Work in a makeshift set up. Pay money to do this?
OK, what does it take to snap out of this? And no I’m not going to disneyland to feel like a kid again. ick.
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me….. fabric….. sewing room….. Yes it all came together tonight.
Not huge progress on anything but I did work awhile on a joint project that Mom and I are doing. It’s a bit of a block that I’ve REALLY been procrastinating about. Things are hardly ever as hard as you imagine and once you put scissors to fabric it’s a lot easier. Heck, if you lose a little piece or hate the color – just get out a little more fabric.
Life is too important to take seriously.
