Happy Place

Morning at Lake Hamilton

 Sometimes the world simply gets too big. 

I'm not going to comment much about recent world events. I have deliberately stayed away from news and current affairs programs. Actually, I do that a lot - most days really. Watching the news unfold in front of me in screaming technicolour doesn't do my heart, mind and soul any good, not to mention the fact that I don't think news reports are entirely accurate most of the time anyway. There's always a myriad of perspectives and I know not all of them are represented in a single news report. 

You may call me an ostrich with my head in the sand. 

That's ok. I'll let you. I'm not offended. I know what works for me and I know that my anxiety levels go through the roof if I dwell on events over which I have no control. I don't think we were meant to know everything but humankind seems to have this insatiable quest to know all there is to know about everything there is to know. 

Try as I may though, news filters through. Let's face it, if you're on Facebook (Did I just make a pun then? Let's FACE it.....FACEbook.......never mind.....) you get news as it's happening so yes, I have heard about the recent tragic events in Orlando and yes, I am aware that billions of people around the globe have aired their opinions about the availability of guns, gun control and the like. 

When things like this happen I find I immediately start creating something beautiful. I guess there's something about the predictability of a beginning, middle and an end that has a beautiful outcome that I find soothing. When 9/11 happened I slowly and systematically started on a Friendship Quilt that became a wall hanging. It kept me calm and gave me another focus rather than dwelling on the horror that I had witnessed live on my television screen.

This time, without even thinking I found myself cutting out 2.5" fabric blocks from the the endless stash of off-cuts and Fat Quarters that I have in boxes in my spare room. So far I have cut out 180 of these little beauties. 

There are 11 piles of 12 squares pictured. I could've sworn I'd cut out 144 squares.......

I found the 12th pile on the floor. 

I lay them all out on the living room rug and decided that I'd do 15 rows of 12 to make it a decent sized little quilt. Laying them on the living room rug was possibly a foolish move because.....well....I have a 10 week old puppy......

Who isn't ALWAYS blissfully asleep on her little sofa!

Tonight I'm going to decide on the placement of colours - which will quite possibly be very haphazard but I like haphazard things. I'll try and post some pictures as the quilt progresses,

Centering in is my happy place. My little home, my kids, my fur-kids and my love for creating beautiful things is sometimes the only world I need to think about. Like I said, I don't think we were meant to know everything. I don't think it's good for me to know everything. I'm doing what I can to listen to my own body, heart and soul to discover the path that is right for me.