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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and contradictions. They're archived here back to 2002, and a new one is posted every Monday morning. Dialogue is still welcome . . .
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Quote #1132 - #PatchquiltPersistence
29 Apr, 2024
PATCHQUILT PERSISTENCE
"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not ... Habit is persistence in practice."
Octavia Butler
"... pick yourself up, brush yourself off ... and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"Character consists of what you do on the third or fourth tries."
James Michener
I've written about persistence
and perseverance
and yet
for those of us with patchwork lives
(projects, earnings, caretaking, home-tending,
playing, friending, loving, celebrating,
hurting, grieving, healing, assessing, re-grouping)
persistence and perseverance
has to be allowed
in patches,
not what from the outside might be viewed as
"normal"
(for whatever worth normal has,
the top of that overused bell curve).
So let me clarify.
When I talk about persistence,
it isn't about persistence of equal measure every day.
It's about not giving up on whatever is important to you,
and, especially, not giving up on yourself.
Some chapters of your life may allow many facets of your being,
others just cannot
and the feeling of failure that can arouse
is of no value.
Sometimes all you can do is ask yourself:
What must I do this week? today? next hour?
to continue the process as healthily as possible?
to accomplish the most?
It may be deep immersion in one,
or it may be an odd mix.
And tomorrow may be different.
And an unexpected gift may come and change everything.
And a Mack truck may hit and change everything.
Our answers to those questions may not look similar
but what I hope is similar
is the acceptance
of what must be.
Persist in your own patches.
Make your own quilt.
Shellen Lubin
April 29, 2024
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