Challenge and creativity
have entertained my thoughts since the gauntlet was passed to ‘come out writing’ from overstuffed cupboards and closets.
Plans and projects designed
to fit the challenge are simmering with beginning and faltering steps taken.
Blouses, jackets and denim jeans of a special color or texture are to be cut into quilting squares to give new life to old memories.
Thousands of words in research articles about
addiction care and
nursing knowledge
to be reshaped and given humanity
Lost stories found and revised ~
the search continues in my archived boxes of journals.
Photographs and images,
especially of childhood experiences,
to be collaged or catalogued for posterity.
Fear of dis-remembering
encourages stacking and storing
prevents honoring a life span of these finite things.
Enjoyment while on chugging memory trips
encourages putting it back for another day
prevents development of a memory piece.
p.s. ~ Throwing out a memory with a memory piece is not like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
~ Pablo Picasso
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