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Completion

Once every two years it seems, I go on a completion drive, following through, pushing forward, finalizing, doggedly dotting the last i.

Today's completion is a cot blanket for Bean. Finished. Phew.

Timeshift

So time has passed and twisted like an accordian chewing out a tune and since I last blogged I have moved house, moved jobs and moved cities. That old life has had a veil drawn over it and is no longer accessible. I miss the people, the places, the smells and the light. Now I'm a new mum and a new life is unfolding in a new place. Changing your life and giving up your habitual rituals is challenging.

In my new life I don't have a job (not a paid one) and so I need a place to talk about stuff and making and making stuff. My struggle with downsizing my clutter had a moving-house-boost but stuff still haunts and shackles me. I have everything and still I shop.

Here's what I'm in the process of completing at the moment:-

My new favourite thing

Happysad

Happysad is the mysterious state of things. One cannot be without the other but further more the one IS the other. Happiness is also sadness looked at in another way. Sadness is happiness from a different standpoint. Like two sides of the same coin, when it comes right down to the detail - they are one. Here are my happy flowers sadly and joyfully battling on after two weeks.
The clock that ticks for me makes me sad but what is more beautiful than a shower of dandelion seeds, wraith-like, filled with life and death drifting across the lane to settle on stony ground.

I meditated all weekend on the nature of the present momemt. I took refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sanga. But mostly I took refuge in a Hammock

Where I wound yarn and sang to the seeds that never make it

Celebrating..

1. The happy of buying oneself satisfyingly expensive flowers.

2. The happy to be gained from the true effectiveness of the 'Furminator'. If you have a cat or dog buy one now. It's spring-moult time and this is a a comb on speed.

I wish I'd invented it. Here is just one session's worth of cat shavings.3. The happy from not buying anything except food for six weeks (save for a two-book relapse, one of which i've already read and the other am currently reading so I think that's ok).

Life's good today xx

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