Hi, I’m Carie. I write daily posts about navigating these times.
Gen X Poems for Valentine’s Day
Grandma Vi was a prolific artist. She made hundreds of quilts. She found a lot of inspiration in the Amish community. Once she gave my family a quilt and asked me to find the mistake. I couldn’t pick it out but once she did, it’s all I could see — one block was sideways. She told me that some Amish had a tradition to always make one mistake in their quilts because “only God was perfect.” I asked her if she made her mistake on purpose — she laughed and said NOPE!
I wrote these poems year ago. This “haiku” was my favorite. But I realize now that it’s not a Haiku. So yeah, only God is perfect. Ha!
What’s possible?
In times of chaos, it’s so important to never lose sight of the energy of possibility.
if you have the privilege to make space to do so, there’s never been a better time to try something new. It just might bring some love and healing.
To Do
Today my creative energy went toward a video I created for my friend, to confess how I shipped her Christmas gift to my own address. She said I get to be a Kentucky fan now because the blue suits me (but I can’t get a paw print tramp stamp until they win the national championship DANG IT).
So I’m sharing a To Do list I wrote on this day in 2023.