The Net Loft

life is simply all those moments

strung from here to there

we go from being a child into an adult and the days go by

one by one

there are hard things

and easy things

good things

mundane things

sometimes the hard things are so hard

we wish they would just go away very quickly

and sometimes

there are such good times

we wish they would never end

I am a lot like my mother

her life is marked by her stitching

the needlepoint bouquets she drew and stitched alongside her own mother

the liberty print quilt from the time when she broke her ankle

the tops she knitted when she couldn't paint for awhile

her needlework marked the days and times of her years

she is the one who reminds me

stitch in the hard times

make something beautiful out of something difficult

stitch in the good times

remembering times of being together with friends and stitching

alongside them

or for them

with thoughts of them

in memory of them

to remind us

of how and who we love

and where we have been

and where we are headed

with hope for the future

for weddings and births

and birthdays

for encouragement

and friendship...

for we stitchers

the clicking of the needles and the needle and thread

mark the days and times of our lives

and create the legacies we leave behind

a part of us

is in every stitch

and our days are marked by what we have made of them

and as for tomorrow

my only question is...

what will I make today?

there is always

today

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