October 29
To Your Health
Health is a pleasure; health restored is celebration girded
with gratitude. The shock of illness
quickly imbeds itself to an irrefutable unchangeable fact. When this veil is lifted the body responds
with glee, the soul with relief touched with disbelief. The satisfaction of being hale is the bedrock
and once this is shaken its return is nothing more than astonishing. I am never more aware of the miraculous
nature of life than when I feel alive once more after having felt the doom of
sickness.
Throw out ancestral trash
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QUILTER
What more comfort can exist in the world
Than a conglomeration of turned edges and love?
Fancy stitches or not the assembled world of cloth
Stands testament to devotion and diligence.
Careful collections, meaningful to the collector
And mysterious to the possessor,
Fulfill the primal urge to shelter and be safe.
Time is testimony to endurance.
Thread against thread,
Solidarity is strength embracing flexibility.
The bed of life is made and remade daily
With the affection of kind quilters needles of love.
What more comfort can exist in the world
Than a conglomeration of turned edges and love?
Fancy stitches or not the assembled world of cloth
Stands testament to devotion and diligence.
Careful collections, meaningful to the collector
And mysterious to the possessor,
Fulfill the primal urge to shelter and be safe.
Time is testimony to endurance.
Thread against thread,
Solidarity is strength embracing flexibility.
The bed of life is made and remade daily
With the affection of kind quilters needles of love.
You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to
Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
