Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "life"
seven things about sunday
Dear Diary, On Sunday it’s perfectly okay not to know what to do with yourself bacon is legal long drives to no where are expected you are reminded to make peace with God arts and lifestyle sections in newspapers are thicker you can sleep in and not make lunches books are waiting for you there is time for doing nothing or doing something … Read entire article »
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simply beautiful
Dear Diary, I made one little rug this week that turned out beautiful. I was talking to a friend on the phone and an idea of hers struck me. I made it, and I loved it. When I make something small and lovely, it makes me want to make more small rugs. I am so easily led. What if every rug you made was perfect, or just about nearly perfect. What would it feel like? You … Read entire article »
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Stop Worrying About Your Neck
Dear Diary, It happens, sometime I go by the mirror and I am caught off guard. Who is that person who snuck up on me? Where did the girl go? Perhaps some of us are free from the concerns of wrinkles and greying hair, but I am not. I know, I know, “You are only as old as you feel.”, and “The only alternative to aging is….” but come on, sometimes when I look at … Read entire article »
the lines in your face
Dear Diary, Maybe it’s because I am getting older but it comes to be that I find the lines on people’s faces real interesting. I don’t really even mind the lines on my own. Today, I took a long drive in the country through a bumpy dirt road to visit a friend. We had a long walk, and an easy talk. I just like her, her values, and the way she believes that simple is good. … Read entire article »
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“letting your spirit soar” or “chance encounters, sorting yourself out, and getting on with it”
Dear Diary, Some things change your life. They are usually big huge things, big deep experiences or are they ? Sometimes the things that change your life are silly little things. Sometimes they are chance encounters, sometimes they are the little risks that you take, sometimes they just flow, one thing to another, and you flow with them. For example the time I saw Harry Moore, before he was Harry the Printer, on the street outside my window … Read entire article »
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over time
Dear Diary, these same plants have changed so much over the year, from the little green leaves that poked up last spring, to the  creamy white Queen Anne’s Lace from last summer, to the burnt stems of the fall, to the silhouettes of this winter. The metaphor for life in these stoic beauties is solid. We change so much over time. Age gives some of us a stoic quality that we never had in youth. … Read entire article »
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shells from far away
Dear Diary, I remember picking these shells up on a little beach on one of the Aran Islands off the Irish Coast. It was so exquisite, reminding me of my childhood in Newfoundland. There was very little to do on the island, just walk really. There was a couple of pubs for lunch or a guinness but mostly I walked all day. Over lunch in the pub, we met a couple who said they liked … Read entire article »
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presence of mind
Dear Diary, this rug is a favourite of mine from last year. I keep wondering what it is about it that strikes me so. I love the colour, simple and strong, but really what I love is all the emotion, the freedom, the joy in their being. Imagine feeling like they do. We know the feeling, we dream of it, flowers in hand, walking thru the field on a summer day. It is the feeling … Read entire article »
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