TLB and I are setting out for Hobby Lobby in a bit....

... and buying items to make a craft today. Hehehe!

TLB does NOT do crafts. She pays others to make them for her. Totally endearing!!

And even though she says she doesn't enjoy them, when I can get her to do something (maybe once out of every ten years), she always seems extra proud when she finishes it.

There's something she does do that I never have been able to.... knitting. And she's great at it. And knitting seems much more chic anyway. So even in her non-domesticity.... except that she's also a very accomplished cook, she's mega cool!

Anyway.... we'll see how the day goes.

We're going to do a Valentine quilling project.

I learned how to quill when I was 8.... it was one of the first crafty things I learned.

TLB had a neighbor teach me. She'd see I'd have an interest in something and sign me up for lessons or pay someone to teach me. What a lucky daughter I've been! I learned all the important things about life from my incredibly wonderful mother.... and the little extra interests I had she didn't know how to do, she made sure I got the chance for.

More to come...

TLB LOVED Hobby Lobby!

Taking a little different direction...

Been thinking mucho the last several days about where I want my life to be. Is it crazy that I'm 47 years old and don't know? When I was 23 I knew more about what I wanted for my life (overall) than I do now. There are a few things I'm pretty sure about, but I also know I'm never going to get there if I'm always thinking so far ahead. No more tomorrow, next week, next month, next year. Uh uh. I really feel like everything is going to take care of itself if I live in the moment right now, and ONLY for that moment. I'm also going to let myself be surprised... not always have everything so carefully calculated. And since I want the unknown, I'm not doing the 30-day photo challenge... So here's where I'm going... and I do know it's a good thing... though honestly, I really don't know where it's going to take me... but I feel like it will be, what it is to be... "Let it be, let it be, let it be-ee, let it be."

New normal

Virus's, masks, hand sanitizer, staying home, conspiracy theories, hoarding, facetiming, toilet paper shortage, the worst of incompetency from the very highest level, gaslighting, so much blind and deafness (though, not literally), smokescreens, bold-face lies accepted without explanation.... the list goes on and on. First and foremost though, this is nothing to be made light of. The meme's were a good laugh in the beginning, but they're stale and old now. People are suffering, people are sick, people are dying. Medical workers all over the world are putting their lives at great risk everyday, working to save and protect so many. Grocery and essential store workers, truck drivers and delivery people are making sure store shelves are stocked so we have what we need. It's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Until there's a vaccine there isn't much "finality" in sight. People. Oh, the people. In so many ways huma...

Elizabeth Smart

Just starting her new book... I wanted to post though, something she said several months ago when she was speaking to a group on 'human trafficking' at John Hopkins University... Smart, who grew up in a Mormon family, said that her abstinence-only education (a teacher compared women who had sex before marriage to chewing gum) made her rape at the hands of her abductor more demoralizing. “I thought, “Oh my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have value. Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value.” We hadn't pegged Smart for a budding feminist critic of purity culture, but if she keeps it up, she should probably find somewhere to have campaign donations sent.

Sweet Potators

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