Patience and Grace
Patience and Grace can be a little short sometimes . . . in me.
The studio is much like a bunker with concrete on all sides and the floor. It’s the egress that can let out some sounds unbecoming to . . . anyone.
After I had attempted a new project today by reading in one of my quilting books and running a YouTube video over and over, I went out to visit Dennis in the patio porch. Dennis was taking a well deserved break from mowing the acre.
I needed to vent in regard to my proficiency or better yet . . . my lack of it with my left arm and hand. Dennis looked at me with the puppy dog look he can pull off with his brown eyes. The comment I got back was “If you weren’t so Goddamn bullheaded and stubborn you wouldn’t be able to do half of what most people that have had a stroke can. I watch you and have to remind myself what you have been through.” Bless his heart. Yup! I am bullheaded and stubborn enough for the both of us.
I am not about to give in or give up. My middle name is Laura, after my paternal grandmother. She was basically evicted from her lifelong farm by a greedy son. Laura started her new life being wheelchair bound in a mobile home that my dad and his brother Lester remodeled for her. She had her trusty treadle sewing machine and the will to make a new home for herself. Grandma did a bang up job of it. She was back to baking cookies, bread and pies, all from the height that her wheelchair would allow. Kevin and Carrie both have a small puff quilt that was made under the needle of her treadle machine while living in her new home. They each also have an African (that’s what Grandma heard when the word afghan was said) . . . Priceless. What a namesake that I have been blessed with.
I plan on working hard to fill those shoes of her’s. I am going to have bumps in the road ahead of me. A long as I stay upright and breathing I am in it for the long haul.
Tomorrow is a new day and I have made sure to write down the YouTube title as it is going to be viewed again . . . until I get it and the patience and the grace.