"i made no resolutions for the new year.
the habit of making plans, of criticizing,
sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much of a daily event for me."
~anaïs nin
i don't know if i could have phrased it better...except, perhaps than by letting go of all of it and quietly sitting in the moment...allowing it all to just be. harder than one might think...sitting in that elusive moment...our nature is to attempt to pin it down...fasten it to the surface of our minds...mark it...tag it...define it...but as soon as we attempt to do so, it is no longer and we are grasping at the whisping threads of the past, rather than sitting and peacefully being in the moment...
these are amongst the thoughts that stream through mind as i sit and stitch in the new year...well, stitch out the old year, in any case, as i'll be fast asleep long before the new year puts in her appearance since i have to get up at 4:30 in the morning to prepare for another day's work....
i've been allowing the midwinter cloth and the woven c2c cloths to rest a bit while working on this winter small cloth:
and i realize that there appears to be a pattern forming...a pattern of trees...growth...dormancy...quiet fortitude...left facing and therefore entering...or standing quietly in passivity...but not true passivity for they are standing in their knowingness...and in their beingness...circling back to into that thought of being in the moment...trees are never anywhere else but standing in the moment...being what they are...random thoughts urging me back into the needlechanting that was unfolding before i took pause to write these words....
wishing you all a joyous new year, filled with moments of being...
namaste'
