~ Saturday ~

I have been neglecting my crafting, and my blog lately. Have you ever been so busy, but when you sit down to retell what you've been busy doing, it's a lot of .... nothing? Not nothing. Our kitchen is finally coming back together, school is picking up, we're busy with activities, but pretty much just run-of-the-mill things. And yet that's how time slips by un-noticed. Lately I was lecturing a friend about how she can't do her writing and crafting in 'left over' time; that she has to carve it out and stick to it. Yet, I do the same thing! You may also. It reminds me of why friends are so important. To keep us balanced and centered.

And so perhaps you will understand today and my somewhat funky feeling of not knowing which way is up or down.

The Wordsworth Effect

Is when you return to a place

and it's not nearly as amazing

as you once thought it was,

or when you remember how you felt

about something (or someone) but you know

you'll never feel that way again.

It's when you notice someone has turned

down the volume, and you realize

it was you; when you have the

suspicion that you've met the enemy

and you are it, or when you get

your best ideas from your sister's journal.

Is also-to be fair-the thing that enables

you to walk for miles and miles chanting to

yourself in iambic pentameter

and to travel through Europe with

only a clean shirt, a change of

underwear, a notebook and a pen.

And yes: is when you stretch out

on your couch and summon up ten thousand

daffodils, all dancing in the breeze.

-Joyce Sutphen