Been away too long

Truly, I have forgotten about you, Blogger. And now I can't figure out this migration stuff. But I got to the page where i can post, so I will. I've been working on a shoe a day project for the last 4 months, and i am ready to stop. The daily shoe postcards are for my dear friend who is undergoing chemo and radiation for breast cancer. It was supposed to be 14 weeks of treatment, and it's well past that, but I don't know whether she is still going through it or not. I haven't heard from her for a while. What should I do? I guess I will text her. I'm ready to stop at the beginning of the year. Many of my friends have commented on the the concept of postcard a day, and a few have taken the challenge to do a postcard of their own for a friend. One friend sent a postcard each day to her ailing parents when she found she couldn't be there physically. Another thought of hiring me to make them for her. I would love to actually. I woke up the other day with the idea of 'one a day, vitamins for the heart' as a business name- I know it needs work but really it came to me in a dream, OK? Here is a link to my shoe set on flickr. One of my favorites recently- Where will it lead me?

Thin Places
This article in the New York Times struck me the other day, and made me think about the places in my life where I have felt an other worldly connection. For me these places are not necessarily far away or exotic, but rather close to home, places where I have felt an overwhelming serenity and gratefulness for life. Sometimes it is just a moment when all things come together in perfectness- walking through the fields to the pond at sunset, my mission to turn off the irrigation pump, my reward a song of peepers and a warm, fiery sky. Heaven, as they say, on earth.