Saturday, October 4, 2008

~ 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

2 comments:

Dede Warren said...

Amen sistah, isn't life sometimes a strange, funny thing? I too sometimes feel like I'm so busy, only to realize it was the mundane tasks that kept me so. Then I am reminded that those are the things that center me, funny as that may sound. That is where I get my balance... work first, then play. And fortunately sometimes it's play first, and then work.

Sarah said...

I've been the same way. Haven't took time to myself all summer to craft. I've been in a rut! Great pictures!
Sarah
Vintage Lily