It's been a long time since I caught the sunrise through a cat's ear.
It's a slower looking.
I feel like I've been caught up in a pace not fitting to where I am. I'm so done with so many things.
Yesterday I began unpinning all those patches. Putting them into the grab bag basket. This one caught my eye and I sat for a while stitching a Magic Sunflower. I have a feeling, that might happen once in a while as I randomly meet them again while freely going.
I have made the decision to undo a lot of the social media on my list. Keep you posted. I need a smaller world. One that makes sense.
I feel the same exact way lately. Hoping to figure it out.
Trying have less to focus on. A start.
you do you. I’ll be here to see what you come up with next. So much beauty comes from your hands and heart.
❤️
Yeah, I’m feeling pretty done with a lot today. So much to take in, but really, all I want is to sit and listen to birds and the wind in the trees.
At least we can.
Jude, you make the world a better place with your beautiful creations. Thank you for sharing your optimism and strength when you feel crushed by cruelty and hate in our world. Your choices make some days bearable for us ragmates who check in – and who worry about you. Please, please, take care of yourself.
Taking care is a full time job for all of us these days.
Sometimes less is more better. SA gets a couple boxes a month and I’m using up yardage making charity quilts. I do not need all this stuff I have and my kids don’t want it.
All of sudden everything becomes too much.
Jude, I do believe that all of us who follow you are in the same boat so you’re not alone. The state of our country and the state of our world has all of us in a state of constant anxiety, chaos, and confusion. For those of us who use our hands to create art we have that to help us survive. Just know you are not alone and you are cared about.
well, I’m AM getting old…😂
Yes to smaller is better on so many fronts. I feel so done with so many things, I keep putting it down to my age..but maybe its not just my age. Its ‘the’ age that living has become. Some strange sense and AI. When its in a closed loop alone with only itself to feed in, it starts to talk nonsense, I hear today. It needs human minds input. So who is feeding on who. No good if we’re all stupified by algorithms. What a wyrd world. But still the spiral turns, the sunflower grows, it looks like a spinning thought. Solo and peaceful ears in the light. Beautiful. Sunrise and sunset and so it goes.
it’s so many things
Every once in awhile I think about resurrecting my old blog, but then I come to my senses and remember why I stopped. I don’t post on social media, but I like popping in and out of here on a whim. No one judges. I’m glad you’re here to give a safe space for conversation, or for quiet looking…
It’s been a big question, whether ti continue here. I’ve so many places, this will be the last to go when it’s needed. It’s more like home
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I was just looking at the side bar here. All those places and then underneath “Help!” Made me laugh. I really loved Instagram in the early days… Now I feel assaulted and algorithm-ized when I go there.
That made me laugh.
Yes, Instagram is a marketing platform. But guess who’s making the money.
Beth~ oh, haha I never noticed it that way! That is good! lol
Sometimes I go out in the garden and look for the really small things to notice.
Just did that.
Jude~ Yes, smaller is better (in my opinion). Love seeing the “cat’s ear” pics 🙂 It’s funny even after all of these years, I almost exclusively find you here, wherever you are blogging. I’ve never done the instagram thing, quit FB eons ago etc. etc.
I like the conversations here.
Love the lil eyes on the sunflower!
There’s no real conversation with oodles of people.
That sunflower looked back at me.
Seems like a good choice. We’ve only got so much energy. 🙂
Yeah, that especially…
I’m simplifying too..slow but steady. Shedding..stitching helps ground that for me and seeing your thoughtful posts. You have been a thread form for many years..grateful Jude❤️
Yeah, a blog is a thread. The rest of it, not.
Your ancient spiral…a spiritual journey! A New path? Narrowing your paths? Simplification!
The sunflower is beautiful – bigger is not necessarily better
Something simple and small can be like medicine.
Another meaning for freedom.
I didn’t realize SoulO had shades of brown, so handsome.💗
Yeah, he has brownish undertones. In the sun.
That was a beautiful display you had pinned smaller is better social media
I think so.
It’s okay to set personal boundaries. Keep going…
Yeah, time to push the reservation button.
When moments present, like sunlight through Soulo’s ear, how are you able to catch them before they go away? You can’t tell a cat “Wait, don’t move” while you get ready to take the picture.
Sometimes I’m just lucky to be able to share.
smaller is better
quality over quantity
do what makes you happy
Trying to dig that out…
The spiral is a beautiful meditation cloth.
Smaller can be more sane.
Today I asked myself…have we all gone insane?
true that!
❤️
Smaller and the idea of smaller feels so inviting sometimes. A “just right” of something, of everything. Love this darling sunflower!
What’s important seems smaller.