sketches of my day May 2008 - Nov 2010

July 13, 2009

Snapshots

 

     I end this day with good solid feelings. Many things happened today that were wonderful, despite the fact that the day began with a start – a phone call that someone had accidentally ran their car into our place of business. At that moment, with that call, I felt a bit queasy and a lot of discouragement, for the "thing" they had run into had just been replaced. Soon, however, I was able to absorb it and realize “things could most definitely be worse”. Anyway, back to the good part of my day. First, I had time today to hang out a big load of laundry, and while at my old clothesline, I remembered my boys when they were little running through the laundry in summer and Hailey, our dog of long ago, jumping when I wasn’t there pulling down every last piece and I remembered carrying Elizabeth in the laundry basket to the clothesline when she was little and needed to be with me every minute. I remembered the first dragonflies of summer resting on my clothesline and hanging cloth diapers and baby blankets my mother made. Anyway, that was the wonderful thing that helped ease the discomfort of the early morning phone call.

       Something else that was wonderful was the tie dye operation that occurred for most of the afternoon. My 14 year old decided to learn how to tie dye from a  You Tube video and she very well did. We scavenged the town for V neck T’s and Rit dye and she spent all afternoon tie dying 8 shirts. All the while, my husband had my twins outside teaching them to change brakes on their truck. I don’t know, but it was all such a wonderful atmosphere of creativity and learning – progressive positive karma being generated from the home. It felt so good to have these three of my children learning and doing things that were being taught by us. Our home became a classroom of sorts, instead of spending hours being negatively influenced by someone else. I suppose that is a snapshot of how life used to be. Why did society leave that place? Why did we sell the farm?

 All the while throughout all of this domestic harmony, figs were slow cooking on the stove to be packed and savored this winter when hot biscuits and Saturday mornings are here. And then, I had a visit from a friend who came to see my paintings and brought gifts of goat cheese, from a local goat, and more figs to put up!! I was able to give him pears from my Kieffer pear tree and fresh eggs from my hens – how wonderful is that?

On the fringes of evening, I walked to the paper box to get the news of the day and almost mystically, there appeared three small fires in the distance, someone burning twigs and debris in their fields or yards. It was the quintessential summer evening, one I will remember in winter when there is a fire inside and cold and damp out.

I am posting a few pictures of this amazing day and hope you can find magic in your day, amidst all that is inevitably upside down.

check out the dragonfly

peace

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