What Is the Work About?

The day to depart for Paducah is coming closer.....and believe it or not, I may actually get everything done. All I have been thinking about is getting home so I can make quilts which is a big problem. I am not in the moment....but in the future which never comes. Everything is right now no matter where you are....you are there.
I wonder if all the external events in the world aren't having a deep effect on many of us. They seem so hard to avoid....not to fall into the black hole as if you are constantly passing an accident on the freeway. Yet how can we as artist not address, at least in our thoughts, the world at large? My work has centered on environmental issues using the leaf and tree designs. We are not separate from nature but a part of it....and yet, our government is the least interested in what our environmental legacy will be.
There are no expectations on my part that the work will make a difference. It is just something I feel deeply and must express. Creativity is the deepest compulsion of our lives. We do it in small ways each day....and occasionally, in large ways through art and public protest.
However, recently my thoughts have been turning inward....toward a time where I will lead a less public life. I love teaching....being with the students is such fellowship...and yet, the impulse to create is becoming overwhelming.
Through the past 22 years, being in the studio was the greater part of my life.....now it is a few months a year. I think I am becoming neurotic from the lack of working....of course, that would mean that I wasn't neurotic before....hmmm.
Apologies for the venting....back to packing....will try to stay in touch from Paducah....while I am gone, make more quilts.