Tonight it felt like home. Allie had some friends over to play cards and while they played, I worked on a quilt and helped Stacey get the web server switched over. I didn’t want to seem unsociable, but I am on a very tight deadline for this quilt. Most of my unscheduled time here at home will be devoted to it. As they wanted to use the table, I moved my sewing machine to my desk in the living room. I love where my desk is placed. It’s in the far corner underneath my bulletin board and the window. Looking out, I can see the flowers on the deck to the left, the swimming pool and green lawn below, and a wide sky open before me. It’s a wonderful place to work, to meditate, to let my thoughts flow over themselves like a river shifting around stones and sand. It’s one of the reasons I like to quilt. In a repetitive pattern like this one, you don’t have to think much. You pick up one purple block, one yellow block, and you sew them together. Next. This goes on for a very long time, especially with this pattern. But I’m enjoying the quiet time, the time to ponder, to mull, to just be where I am right now with no demands to pay attention to anything further than a yard away. What a gift of space to let myself fall into.
365-09 #153