"Creativity is sacred,
and it is not sacred.
What we make matters enormously,
and it doesn't matter at all.
We toil alone, and we are
accompanied by spirits."
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear
What drew me to get the book was reading something about how she talked of Curiosity…..because it was syncronicity with my own renewed preoccupation with Curiosity. I followed the thread. And found a friend. It's not a magnificant book, but it is like having a Friend. a Friend who is similar to yourself and who can wander through thought and love and just Enjoy the wandering…Like my most loved friend Marjorie Burke Price, that i have been missing so much, she is like her…having no destination, just the joy of wondering.
There are many things in this book that will stay with me. They will be perceived differently by those that read. But things that will stay with me. For instance…if something Shows UP, welcome it. Who knows?
The Old Cowboy's futon frame has been in the back of his (mine) truck for maybe a week or more. It's exactly like this one except it works easy when you go to make it flat. So i was going to change it out. Take this one to the Thrift Shop. Needs some nuts and bolts or something and anyway, it depended on me finding someone to move this one Out and OCB's In and i was malingering. It's too long a story to tell for "nothing", but he called this morning saying that he and Alan would come after work and do the thing. After work means 5:30. In the dark and they would need to come through the Way Back gate that is sensitive in daylight let alone DARK. And would mean that i would need to do many small things to make this ok to happen like make a fake Goat gate in order not to lose Goats in the process and move almost everything around in the house so it could go smoothly and i said ok. But then
as morning progressed, i thought….This is NOT how i had wanted to spend this day. So i checked out the present futon frame and lo and behold i got it to work just ok enough to call him and CANCEL the mess of moving it. And suddenly in the midst of that i thought of the old cover i made in the beginning of the Jude stuff which has been in a basket , the BOTTOM of a basket in the bedroom for a few years.
this is not at all the true color…this kind of greybrown strip, i don't know how it happened this way in the pic but i really really LIKE it…
and what's the Deal with this denim futon cover? But then i though about how i'd been thinking about Julie's question. Did i think about going to California to be with them there or something and i responded that i thought i "should"
But i don't want to. Yet. I don't want to. But what if they came here? Alyssia had said that she wanted the kids to "know" me. Well….could they "know me" if they came here? And if instead of the oh so light grey blue futon cover, there was this denim one that could take the wear and tear…..?
What if the kids, Julian 6 and Destiney 7 came here? Say for a month of their summer vacation? What if we made a pond out where the Raft is? With plastic and then stone and cement? What if we made a Navajo shade house over where the Old Cowboy's lawn furniture is? Would that keep us busy enough? For a Month?
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