Tuesdays' Two Cents: Journeys

" A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it"  John Steinbeck

We've been getting ready to travel south for about a week now.......decisions, decisions, decisions!  The usual ones about clothing and personal items, yet those pale in comparison to the decisions I've been making about which of my quilting supplies to take and which to leave behind.  It's like deciding in advance what I might want to use on one my quilts at some point 32 days from now or something like that.  No way of knowing that in advance.  By now I've made all the decisions and packed a few boxes and off they have gone.  I'm okay with it....no doubt, some day I'll reach for something and it won't be there.  that will force me to punt.......find a new way, or change the idea  I had planned.  so that could be good.

The photo is taken by me while paddling a canoe at Potato Creek State Park earlier this past summer.  Without practice, canoes can be difficult to control.  Besides, we didn't really have a plan in mind as to where we were going anyway.  John Steinbeck's quote reminded me of how much I've been trying to control to make this trip turn out to my best advantage.  I think I've done a pretty good job so far, but no doubt there will be the absence of a favorite quilting book, or fabric, or other supplies.  But I remember I left behind a lot of fabric and other supplies there when we left last spring, so it'll be all new to me again!  And that should make up for whatever stays here to wait for me to return. 

Comments

[Chris Predd]

We flew this year.......so no packed van as we have had in the past. I
agree.........there ARE stores in Florida, what's wrong with us??? thanks
for commenting. Chris

[Linda]

I'm doing the exact same thing! Sent many boxes ahead and the van will still be bulging at the seams. Do I forget that there are actually stores where you can buy things in FL?