Keeping my mind calm; I did one of these!!
I keep a star to be on my small design wall by my machine for a quilting quicky when I have the chance.
Looking to gifting, I made two more Japanese knot bags....
The one below is made with corduroy scraps gifted to me years ago.
Something new for me here...Cord holders to keep mess down.
Cord Keeper patterns from Apple Green Cottage
The cord wrappers are a new experiment form. I have put one on my long I-Pad cord by the sewiung machine.
The Green Apple Cottage has the templates ready to copy.
And so goes this Saturday. The ortho guy told me to walk thru the pain...Big Ouch. He also sent me to a weight reduction program where they are going to give me a shot in my stomach so I will lose 40 pounds...OMG> Then I will probably stay in bed and wait for the promised nausea and dizzsiness. I am supposed to lose 40 pounds in two months..Jeeze Louize..I do not know...New rules say...no low BMI, then no operation...even though 8 years ago I had 4 joint replacements in 12 months with a very similar BMI...now doctor and new rules..
I am walking around in pain, I get depressed!! I have been offered a riding cart, but physical therapy says I have to walk...so walk I do!!
Goals: losing weight enough for me to get a medical release. ANd so it goes. I have not heard from my grands in forever. It is OK...I am concentrating on getting better..
Tonight's share is from John Roedel
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I wrote this poem a couple years ago to keep myself from falling off the edge. I need these words today more than ever.
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oh my troubled lovely,
oh my weeping daisy,
oh my fading candle,
oh my broken beauty,
oh my crumbling stronghold,
stay with us
here on Earth
don’t rapture yourself;
~ we need you - we need you
- we need you - we need you
before you decide to leave,
sit with me here in your unmade self
at the edge of your unmade bed
and listen to me
tell you one last secret
oh my tearful songbird,
if you can find
a way to
survive long
enough
someday you’ll become
the answer to somebody
else’s most desperate prayer
by just being there in
the same room that they are in
~ as they gently fall apart
and in that moment
you won’t need to say anything
you’ll just need drape your hands
over theirs like a Good Friday altar cloth
until they believe in resurrection again
~ that’s why you can’t give up
your life will someday be the rainbow
at the end of someone else’s storm
if you aren’t still here
when they fall off
the bridge
then who will be there to catch them?
I know it’s not quite fair
~ but your life isn’t just yours
it also belongs to that person
who is going to need you
to be alive later
you are part of the community
of unintended angels
who has a sacred calling
of surviving your darkest night
so someday you can be the
sunrise for somebody else who
will need you to prove to them
that daybreak always returns
oh my clouding diamond,
oh my shaking sunflower,
oh my doubting saint,
oh my disappearing moon,
oh my quieting symphony
stay here
with us
on Earth
because if you do
you will save a dozen lives
by first saving your own
it’s the great pyramid scheme
of hope
you must persist
so they can watch how you persist
turn this riptide you
are drowning under
into a ripple
of hope
that stretches
through time
that you can ride until
you reach that one moment
in your life where you’ll find yourself
in a quiet room with somebody
who wants to become a shadow
and you’ll be able to say to them
with authority the same thing
I am saying to you right now:
“oh my troubled lovely,
oh my weeping daisy,
oh my fading candle,
oh my broken beauty,
oh my crumbling stronghold
stay with us
here on Earth
don’t rapture yourself
we need you...”
by john roedel
