A Joyful Noise Unto the Lord Homeschool

We are studying poetry now in our Creative Writing class. I am finding it a little difficult but reading the poets helps! It is amazing the research you can do online these days.  By the way, I haven't written on this blog in ages...but I am enjoying my class, homeschooling the kids, the Fall (which is almost over), and sewing once again. I took a sewing class (the final session will be this Monday) and am getting excited again about the many projects I have in mind. I have had very little time to read lately because the days are so full. But I am making my way through the Old Testament and now am in 1 Kings in my Bible reading time...trying to make it to Isaiah by Christmas (I am skipping Psalms and Proverbs because I read those every day).

I will be writing an update soon about our Fall activities and more on family. Thanksgiving is almost here! I also have been reading blogs from several fellow cross stitchers. They are amazing. It is incredible how creative and talented these women are!

While researching, I came across this lovely poem about quilts:

Quilts

(for Sally Sellers) 
 
Like a fading piece of cloth 
I am a failure 
 
No longer do I cover tables filled with food and laughter 
My seams are frayed my hems falling my strength no longer able 
To hold the hot and cold 
 
I wish for those first days 
When just woven I could keep water 
From seeping through 
Repelled stains with the tightness of my weave 
Dazzled the sunlight with my  
Reflection 
 
I grow old though pleased with my memories 
The tasks I can no longer complete 
Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past 
 
I offer no apology only 
this plea:  
 
When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end 
Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt 
That I might keep some child warm 
 
And some old person with no one else to talk to 
Will hear my whispers 
 
And cuddle 
near