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The Promise- Tracy Chapman
If you wait for me
then I'll come for you
Although I've traveled far
I always hold a place for you in my heart

If you think of me
If you miss me, once in a while
Then I'll return to you
I'll return and fill that space in your heart

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
If you'll be waiting

If you dream of me
Like I dream of you
In a place that's warm and dark
In a place where I can feel the beating of your heart

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
If you'll be waiting

I've longed for you
And I have desired
To see your face your smile
To be with you wherever you are

Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
Please say you'll be waiting

Together again
It would feel so good to be
In your arms
Where all my journeys end
If you can make a promise
If it's one that you can keep
I vow to come for you
If you wait for me

And say you'll hold
A place for me
In your heart.

Sometimes what was relevant in the beginning is even more so after many years. 
-JMB

Sometimes life with minimal filtering is quite beautiful...

The last time I took a photo of a delicate Anemone was this past fall in my mother's hospital room.

They bloom again.

Much is different and much is familiar.
Fragile looking, but also strong on that long thin stalk.

Crocus
Daffodil
Tulip
Lilac
Iris
Dahlia
and now this early Anemone

Seasonal reminders of time passing,

Beauty.
Transience.
Continuity.

I didn't know we were here yet.

JMB

And then it was finished... Jubilee Crush

Quilting as Clare tweeted about the Jubilee Boat Parade... it almost didn't get finished that day.  I love the Queen and the pictures of the colorful boats on that grey, grey water.  It was all so inspiring.  I had to keep sewing.

I am so glad to have this one out of the studio and out in to the world.  I have spent many nights already snuggled underneath,3 sewing and playing Scramble with friends.

Almost the most satisfying part was using these crazy golds in in the back-- made palatable by that AWESOME IKEA number print.  Feels so good to finish something and to use some of my favorite fabrics.  Hoard no more! (if I say it enough, it might happen.)

:)
JMB

6 sides, stripes, and a surprise

Hi
I miss this space.
There has been much time spent studying the 6 sides of this shape.  And then not even studying it, but just sewing.  Just being in the moment and moving through it.  If I am lucky moving through it means there is a folded basket of laundry or, even better, a finished block-- or, the best, a finished quilt.

the big dreams are still percolating
confidence is building
directions are getting firmer

but there is much of the just moving through the moment to be done still.

finding a balance point with all the change
that is what my libra spirit craves
but we are not there yet.

someday soon

i hope

-JMB