Getting ahead of myself
Isn't that often the way we work? Stressing out about this or that when truthfully all we need to focus on is one small detail.
I realized that this morning, as in truly grasping it with all gears. LOL. And of course, as these things go, my laptop just notified me the battery is SUPER LOW. So I've plugged it in, and will continue this as soon as possible....
Okay, I've eaten breakfast and am ensconced at my office machine. Probably the laptop is fully charged by now, hah, but as I was saying, we freak out or worry or over-analyze this, that, or some other and if all we'd done in the first place is to deal with the initial step, voila! All our anxieties would be gone.
That sounds SO SIMPLE. So EASY. So, so, so.... So something, ahem. What in our human natures seems to crave drama, fretting, over-analyzing. Why can we live and let live? Why, why, why.... Why's as deep a subject as well, I wrote in The Enran Chronicles. Or why's even deeper, something like that. Why do I occasionally ponder veering on worry about that saga, one I began as if writing was as involuntary as breathing and now, three years later I've barely touched. Because it's not merely a quilt over which I dither, hehehe. Yeah, laughter is better than crying. Because much of this world is beyond my ability to do more than pray about, so love and laughter and not freaking out are my best objectives.
Not freaking out, hmmmm. If I follow my heart, which often I do, but not always, then things are fine. If I wrap my head around the noise (see previous post), well then I'm setting myself up for epic fails. EPIC failure, as in missing the whole freaking point of life! Which is to love and live and let live and maybe eat some ice cream if you can do dairy or sorbet if you can't.
Woulnd't it be awesome if that was what everyone considered their goal? To love, live and let live, and enjoy a sweet treat now and again. My goodness, how simple, how easy, how, how, how....
But no. Ahem.
So let me back up and return to that Warm Hearted, Mr. Carter, I'd keep it if I could but it's going to a better home quilt top AND back. Don't forget the back because you can't make a quilt sandwich without a back. All I need to accomplish today, and need is relative, but what I'd LIKE to do today is get the EPP half off my work table. Which means laying out the back onto the guest bed, figure out the batting situation (cut an entirely new piece off a twenty-yard roll that is quickly running out of steam or piece together scraps that I probably have enough of but will take more time), then position the top onto the batting, THEN safety pin the hey outta it.
That's all I need to do today. Then my work table is free for some new shiny (lol), the design wall is liberated for something else, and my stash of safety pins is busy doing their poky, pinning thing. As well as maybe using some scrap batting, or not. That truly is yet to be determined.
So yeah, life at times is simple. Easy. It's what we make of it with our imperfect hearts, our tattered souls, our smiles and tears, our laughter and love. The more laughter and love we have, and SHARE, the better.
With that all said, time for revisions, LOL! Here's a picture of the Warm Hearted Mr. Carter quilt way back when it was merely basted hearts aching for a home. That's all we are, basted hearts, looking for a safe place to settle. May you find that today!
