It's New Year's Eve and I'm dreaming of places far away yet so dear and near to my heart.
So much has happened in just one year. I look back on it all, all of those Stitches in Memory and Time and it's almost unbelievable.
So much has happened in just one year. I look back on it all, all of those Stitches in Memory and Time and it's almost unbelievable.
I am so grateful for the time I was able to spend with my mother and father last year even the challenges - my terrible broken wrist and resulting alien encounters and my sad loss of my father.
If I hadn't broken my wrist and needed the surgery there in Alaska, I wouldn't have had all of those extra months with him! If my mother hadn't developed blood clots, I wouldn't have flown back to Juneau to be with both of them again right after bringing our family to Anchorage for a nephews wedding- just one month before my dad passed away!
With all of the challenges, so much good and so much gratitude in spite of them. And yes, four trips to Alaska was both incredibly expensive and challenging but it was a time and a place that I can never have again.
I learned so much about myself this past year. Learned that I am capable - physically, emotionally, and spiritually, of so much more than even I thought I was.
If I hadn't broken my wrist and needed the surgery there in Alaska, I wouldn't have had all of those extra months with him! If my mother hadn't developed blood clots, I wouldn't have flown back to Juneau to be with both of them again right after bringing our family to Anchorage for a nephews wedding- just one month before my dad passed away!
With all of the challenges, so much good and so much gratitude in spite of them. And yes, four trips to Alaska was both incredibly expensive and challenging but it was a time and a place that I can never have again.
I learned so much about myself this past year. Learned that I am capable - physically, emotionally, and spiritually, of so much more than even I thought I was.
I learned that I can do and be the things and the person that I want, and need to be in this life time and not waste it any more than I have to.
I am thankful that my life wasn't any harder than it needed to be. Thankful that I still could enjoy family and friends and my hobbies and passions that mean so much to me.
I am so thankful for all of you, for having this blog as my fulcrum point for connecting, and for all of the laughter therapy and friendships that all of you have shared with me. Such a wonderful gift!
And today - tonight, on New Year's Eve - I offer all of you "Twilight Dreams."
I am thankful that my life wasn't any harder than it needed to be. Thankful that I still could enjoy family and friends and my hobbies and passions that mean so much to me.
I am so thankful for all of you, for having this blog as my fulcrum point for connecting, and for all of the laughter therapy and friendships that all of you have shared with me. Such a wonderful gift!
And today - tonight, on New Year's Eve - I offer all of you "Twilight Dreams."
My 11th art quilt donated to the Alzheimer's Art Quilts Initiative during 2010 as part of my AAQI Liberated Quilters Challenge to myself, and all of you and my Quilt #11 in Finn's New Year's Eve Quilt Challenge
During these past two months "Twilight Dreams" and this synchronicity of 11:11 good luck numbers!
Finn's New Year's Eve Quilt Challenge November and December 2010:
Finn's New Year's Eve Quilt Challenge November and December 2010:
Small Project #1: Get Well Postcard
Liberated Quilting Challenge: Our AAQI Challenge Quilts January 2011 Update
Sold quilts #6165 We still have more!
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Michele Bilyeu quilts for AAQI..the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Won't you please join us?
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative Sold quilts #6165
Michele Bilyeu quilts for AAQI..the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Won't you please join us?
Love to you all!
6 comments:
What a wonderful perspective you have on this past year.
I too am greatful for all of my blogging friends....they have brought such deminsion to my life.
Smiles,
Kelly
I am so inspired by you. Just had to say that and wish you a most happy new year!
It is beautiful. Love the butterfly. I hope 2011 is incredibly boring for you! In a good way of course!
I too am inspired by you. Those challenges are what make us who we are today. Sometimes they are worse than we'd ever think we could handle and yet we handle them. I've seen you handle yours with grace. It's been beautiful to watch and has made me look at myself and see if I can do the same in the struggles we have. I hope I can.
Happy New Year friend. Hugs and love
It's a good thing when we can look back at our selves with contentment and knowing that we are empowered to embrace life in it's many variations. Wishing you a calmer 2011, yet may you continue to grow with grace. Jane
Your kindness, caring and generous nature inspires me. I hope this will be a better year for you.
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