Just Thinking

Work on the quilt is coming along pretty fast for a hand appliquer...oh Melody, that I could give it up and fuse. So anyway, while sewing your mind goes a million miles an hour.....making new quilts and pondering the life we lead....you know the quote, "An unexamined life etc." So I was wondering why we set ourselves up for so much grief. It is has to be that old boogey man caalled expectations. I know I talk about this more than you probably want to hear but it just keeps coming back to me all the time.
With no expectations, you are always plesantly surprised at the events that occur and never disappointed when nothing happens. Seeing the universe as always giving what we need when we need it keeps you in the flow....dancing with every day regardless of what it brings. Truly, I understand how difficult this is but just knowing that it can be done brings me great joy.
Don't you have those days that are just golden? Where everything is working in a rhythm all your own? Honestly, you can do this every day if you allow yourself.
Take for example, since we are quilt artist, the concept of perfection. Bleech..what an impossible concept. Perfection is the nemesis of creativity. Creativity is a messy, frought with errors, problem solving play. Perfection is mechanical, often without heart and only technique. I want my brain surgeon to be perfect...don't get in there and groove around...."Hmmm, let's see what happens if I do this?" But I want my artist to be revelatory, exploratory and always working for what is just beyond.
This doesn't mean that you can't have a business plan or a studio discipline. It just means work with the energy, not against it.
Sorry y'all...I rag on this way too much but we just gotta get it in the end before we end up empty...with the well gone dry. Now aren't you sorry I started sewing.....
More pictures tomorrow when there is something new to see.