It's a longer story really.
But just to explain without asking for sympathy or getting into too much detail. There was a sudden issue, a trip to the emergency room, a rush to surgery and a 13 day hospital stay. I'm home now. recovering. I missed Soul-o so much. I spent a lot of my down time just thinking. About so many things. I am grateful to be here. And I've no idea where to begin again...or what I might be capable of or even motivated by.
When I returned home I put on my Wind Robe. There are not a lot of pictures of it here, some here, it was recorded on the blog that was Iost. It is lightweight and full of patches and stitches and I add to it once in a while. It holds a sense of liquid safety for me.
This morning I noticed this wishing star stitched in a way to hold things together. Wishing can be a kind of mending I said to myself. Maybe it also has something to do with new eyes.
Just seeing this post, and hoping you are refreshed and recovered or new. Being home with Soul-O must be a healing.
I often think sudden disruptions are a way we are forced to reset. Not always a pleasant process. Sending you love.
Yes, reset indeed.
I have been so out of touch with the internet lately… I was sorry to read this post. I always see you filled to overflowing with vibrancy and joy, that it is difficult to imagine you suffering. My heart goes out to you, Jude. You and Soul-O! Comfort each other and mend….
I get it Joe, I don’t surf around much either. Thank you, I’m mending…with purring…
Blessings to you dear Jude. Just catching up about this hospital stay. Always so glad to see all the support you receive here and on Facebook–hopefully in person as well. So many holding you up in thought and prayer. Your stitches continue to inspire me. OXO
So many travelling companions…
Really really happy you are home, Soul-o must have wondered. These times are dreadful to go through but often transformative. The Wind Robe is very beautiful and full of meanings – many things to heal you now you’re home.
The journey there and back again can be hell but it did not keep you. Be gentle with yourself. Sending healing energy ❤️
Oh my Jude! Glad to know you are home and healing. I too am doing less on scrolling, and so am just seeing this! Hugs and healing energy sent your way!
As I was reading all the comments I was also listening to my favorite country music singer Alan Jackson, and he was singing his The Older I Get tune… his last stanza says “The Older I get, The better I am at knowing when to give, and when to Not give a damn.”
Glad you are on the mend, Jude. Wishing you a speedy recovery. One day one hour one minute at a time.
I am under the weather right now myself but on treatment and slowly recovering. All the best!
K
Man, I love that robe…so much of you put into it. I didn’t realize how long I’ve been following you until I saw the date. Take your time healing. Once we get to our age it takes longer. We’ll be here.
Sending healing and good energy thoughts to you Jude. I’m glad you’re back home with Soulo’s comforting presence. Perhaps this experience will solidify what you want for the future. Please take care of you! Hugs.
Many, many healing wishes and gentle thoughts are on the way to you.
Sending you peace and a gentle hug.
So glad you are reunited with Soul-o. He’s your best medicine. We missed you too. Best healing wishes ❤️
Oh Jude, how dreadful. Wishing you new found comfort and a smooth recovery. May each new day bring you closer to brighter days.🌌✨️🌠
So glad your boy Soul-o by your side.
I have just been through the same scary stuff and hospital with my husband. Home today. Same thing – a lot of thinking during the down time. Now healing for both of us. Healing and love to you.
It’s great to see you here again, great to know you’re in a new normal with social media. I know the land around you will heal you. Maybe the deer will come by soon for a visit.
I remember well the robe. Your instagram might still have some pics of the Wind Robe.
sending best wishes
Hoping you are able to be peacefully creating and adjusting to a new normal. My stitching is what helps me cope with my health . Sending love and light xxxlisaxxx
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Whisking you a calm recovery!
Home safe and on a road to recovery. Lots of love and thoughts for mending. ♥️🙏
I am so glad you are home, after being ‘stitched’ back together and are now on the ‘mend’. Take it easy, rest, meditate, be kind to yourself. After all, it’s all about slow stitching/mending!
So glad you are home recovering.
Purr, purr, purr, purr. Quiver tail. Circle and quiver tail. Purr.
I can’t say how much I wanted to be at home after my stay, still brings me so much comfort even if I am looking at the garden longingly and know it’s just mostly going to have to wait this year. Rest will help the energy come back…. Every one told me I’d have to choose where to spend my time and it is true. Much love!
Glad you are home with your Soul-o. I’m sure he is a great comfort to you. Be patient with your recovery. Some things take more time than others.
Wishing you much starlight, mending and healing.
Greetings Jude 🌸
I missed your blog every morning too 🧚♀️
So good to hear you are back home again 🫶
Wishing you a speedy recovery Jude.🌻
Big hugs xx
Maria
Glad you are home, comfy and safe with Solo <3 Prayers for your recovery.
Home must feel good after 13 days. So glad you have family close by. Big love to you…
Lynda💕
Good to have you back.I hope you enjoy the healing of good company and loving attention!💛
wind…wish…mend….
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You are an important part of my morning and I missed seeing your blog. With the world up for grabs, there is a great comfort in seeing your stitching and photos. I’m glad you are back home with Solo. I hope you’re sitting by the fire in your big comfy chair, drinking tea and stitching up something lovely. I wish you all the best.
(((Jude))) be well, I gotta plan that just might work to shift the dominant paradigm to start caring for our nest & soon !
I bet Soul-o missed you like crazy too. I’ve had a sudden trauma and it takes the wind out of you and you move in a new way afterwards. Sometimes slow and other times fast. Changes who you are in a lot of ways. Take time and move forward at your own pace.
Jude,
Sorry to hear of your emergency hospitalization.
I hope you father strength each days.
A crisis is sometimes natures way of letting us now we need to change something.
Take care healing & be at peace with your thoughts.
💕peace & love,
Sarita
We all so missed you …even here across the pond…scrolling is a disease and yet it brings some connection where there is little….but it’s addictive nature???Prayers for rest and recovery.
Welcome back.
Sending love, light and healing energy to you ✨💛
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(((Jude)))~ You’ve been on my mind and in my dream…a lovely retreat where you’d put together little gatherings of cloth bits for us to stitch. They were all similar, but you had added different beasts in each set. One of mine was a small orange cat. It was so good to be with you.
As for the real world, I’m so grateful you are home again, healing with your beloved Soul-o. May the other side of ‘whatever it was’ be gentle and smooth. Your wishing star holds both the fragility and determined strength of life. 💕
Love you
So that’s where I’ve been! ❤️
Oh my, Jude. I’m so glad you’re still here with us. I would miss you terribly. I hope that you have some support nearby. I mean human, not feline, although I know that purring is healing! Easy goes it, recover in the way that you need to.
(((Jude)))~ You’ve been on my mind and in my dream…a lovely retreat where you’d put together little gatherings of cloth bits for us to stitch. They were all similar, but you had added different beasts in each set. One of mine was a small orange cat. It was so good to be with you.
As for the real world, I’m so grateful you are home again, healing with your beloved Soul-o. May the other side of ‘whatever it was’ be gentle and smooth.
Love you
I’m very grateful that you’re here, too! Good that you’re back with Soul-o, too. I know how healing that is after my intense hospital stay way back in 2019… being at home and with Rhu was definitely helpful after a sudden, unplanned for week in the hospital! Sending love and healing blessings 💚
So happy you are mending and reunited with Soul-O. Thinking of the broken Japanese pottery that is mended with gold and becomes even more beautiful.
Dear Jude, may you continue to recover and allow yourself all the rest you need. I can feel the healing energy of your wind robe and your beloved Soul-O.
So glad that you are safely back home.
Rest and then rest some more. Enjoy your dear Soul-O and watching spring arrive.
May your Wind Robe and Soul-o enfold you in hugs and love. I hope your strength continues to improve, warm thoughts your way.
Rest and mend, I’m glad you are still here!
Welcome home and thank you for the update. I hope you and Soul-o are enjoying your well-deserved quality time with each other. 🐾😻Stay strong.
I’m glad you made it back! Even I (the last person to notice anything) was wondering where you were.
Not scrolling is probably a plus for returning energy. Enjoy your home down time (enforced or not). Enjoy time with Soul-o. Enjoy your new eyes while being wrapped in your ‘liquid safety.’ And, in case I missed anything: Enjoy Life!
Capability and motivation will return when they will and you’ll know with their coming where/how/what you want to start/continue.
Scrolling is a disease…
(Or a savior…? I never realized how relaxing, and humorous, it is to watch cat videos while the news is on mute.)
I am glad you are home from your medical emergency. My mind is making up scenarios, so I’m really happy you are home in the round hug house, and that it’s not winter. May your health and strength return gently and completely.✌🏼🤟🏽♥️
Same here. Rushed to ER, rushed to cath lab, rushed to ICU. I am having trouble pacing myself. I am tired, I am happy to be home with my cat, I am blessed my son dropped everything to be with me through it all. Stay well, stay blessed with your family, stay blessed with Soul-O. Everything can stay in its place and wait. Hugs!
U never can know…but we’re here!
So glad you are home and sharing Touch and Naps with Soul-o. 💜🌷🐿️
Oh, my…what an experience. So glad you are back and able to share a bit with us. May your healing and days be gentle.
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Oh my, so glad you are still with us and on the mend! Mending of body and soul. And with Soul-O!
Take care and go slowly, all of us are just here.
Here we are
Glad you’re back home and improving.
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Home and Healing. Thank you for letting us know you came out the other side.
Yay!
So many folks here care about you (myself included)! Hope you are able to ‘drink’ it all in to nurture your healing! 🙏♥️
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I so very much missed my faraway friend and inspiration (for over 10 years now). No more scares please!!!! Slow and easy. Let it breathe like a glass of wine and rest quietly like winter snow. ❤️
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Such a relief to see your post! Please take care of yourself…enjoy your time with Soul-o.
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I’m so glad you’re home with soul-o and your family Jude! Wishing on your star for a speedy restful recovery… slow down with some slow stitching.
much love and best wishes Jude💙
Jude,
Be well. Take care of yourself.
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Dear Jude, please, please take care of yourself. Soul-o missed you and so did we.
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love the simplicity ‘n transparency of this “mending star”. grateful you’re on the other side of whatever “that” was, safely cocooned in your wind robe with your beloved soul-o alongside. he must be wondering “what was that?” also… here’s to “new wise” for all of us! x
He was so happy to see me.
Very glad you are home and recovering.
Take your time, enjoy this season and the coming one. Let life come to you for a while.
Sending you healing energy and hugs!
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Jody~ Such a loving comment: Let life come to you for a while. Perhaps a good message for many of us. Thanks for that thought.
Glad you are back. I’ll tell you what my yoga teacher said, and she may have been quoting also: start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. Sending lots of love and healing energy.
Ok!
Dear Jude, I am sending my love and best wishes to you. I am grateful to know you are now out of hospital. Gently does it.
No choice…
Oh my….get well soon! Staying in a hospital for two weeks is serious stuff!
Please take care of yourself! Hugs and kisses d wishes,
eva
More depressing than anything…😵💫
Wow! I’m so glad you came through. Time for healing now. Do what you can when you feel you can and soak up the spring energy.
Somethin’ else really.
Jude – I hope your wishing star brings you many good days for stitching and thinking and comfort. ❤️❤️
Hey!
Happy soul-o is with you and take care. Keep going.
I love him, he missed me.
Happy that soul-o is with you again. Keep going. Take care.
Good to hear you are mending – things do fall apart at times, wishing you well
Ha, an understatement…
Please have a smooth, speedy recovery:)
Oh i worry now when i see someone out of commission for awhile, as there are so many of us older these days. Glad to hear you’re on the ups as they say. Hugs across the ether, and a good cuppa tea.
Yes, the age of now what?
So glad you’re on the mend. Take all the time you need.
So glad you are back at home and in the mend wishing you a peaceful recovery !!
I’m so glad you’re home where you belong, back with Soul-o. I’ve been thinking about you. Sending love and healing/mending vibes.
Fragility. Missed your thoughts and stitches. Heal well.
Happy to hear you’re home and Soul-o and you are reunited. Please take care and go slow when need be. That star makes me crushingly aware of life’s fragility — it is barely stitched together.
I noticed it’s broken-ness. Thought of you.
So happy to hear you have come through a storm and are at home again. I missed the inspiration and thoughts you share so freely.
Hoping to continue…
Oh my! I’m glad you are home and wrapped in the Bird Robe with Soul-o for companionship. Sending lots of healing ❤️ your way. I have a robe I made (actually two) thanks to your generous guidance and I feel the same way – love to wrap up in it when things are not going well. And add a few stitches occasionally. Thank you for that!
Human wrapping cloth.
(((Jude)))
Here
Love you ♥️
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May you continue to realize the threads that mend.
Sue
A good skill, mending.
Prayers coming your way for a quick recovery.
Blessings of home and cat companion and liquid safety robe to you! Oh, my … yes, indeed, “what was that” is a good question. Peace and restoration, strength and ease to you, dear woman.
Soul-o is hugging me.
What a beautiful Wishing Star, Jude. It’s my favorite~
I wish you well, in every sense of the words. It has clearly changed you…perhaps saved you.
These are just thoughts, spurred by instinct.
Yes, changed.
Blessings of healing and peace to you Jude …
I hope you feel better soon. I’m so sorry you had to go through this. I am glad you posted because I’ve been wondering about what had happened. I’m glad you are out of the hospital too, it must feel so much better being home with Soul-o. Take care.
Maybe I learned a few things.
So glad to know you are recovering. Take it slow and enjoy the spring.
So hey ho indeed … glad to know you are safely on the other side of whatever that was … take care and may you soon be fully well
I’m still asking myself, what was that?