Another Way to Say....

....Perfect Love, which creates Perfect Peace within, so that we may all "love one another"?


I'm quoting a book called, Glimpse After Glimpse by Sogyal Rimpoche:

"The practice of mindfulness unveils and reveals your essential Good Heart, because it dissolves and removes the unkindness and the harm in you.  Only when you have removed the harm in yourself do you become useful to others.  By the practice, by slowly removing the harm in yourself,you allow your true Good Heart, the fundamental goodness and kindness that are your real nature, to shine out and become the warm climate in which your true being flowers. 

This is why I call meditation the true practice of peace, the true practice of nonaggression and nonviolence, and the real and great disarmament."

Using Fran's Ten Minute Rule, I'm knitting away on two sweaters ( the Aran Fisherman's sweater, and the Noro one for DD3), two pairs of socks ( Jane's Hedgerow and the scrap socks), and that triangle scarf.  I feel as though I've forgotten a project!  What could it be?  I can't post pictures from the net book so pictures will have to wait.  I have to apologize to Jane that I'm modifying her pattern to only knit to the instep in pattern with the hedgerows.   

My sister came over yesterday, and DH and I can really see the changes in her since she has reached what is called, "end of dose failure".   It's where the medicines don't work as well anymore.  This has happened so fast that it's pretty scary.  Since my brave little sister worked right to the last possible day she could,  the few years called the "honey moon period" were used up in a hyper stressed position at work.   She used up all her "spoons", so to speak, forever.  She's in tears a lot, and struggling to walk.  It's easy to see that we need to take her to all the places she wants to go to before it's too late for her to enjoy them.   


But something happier happened for us yesterday, too.   We did get to do a little retail therapy for necessities, as we went to Jo Ann's to use coupons to buy a few things we needed.  She got some findings for the earrings she makes for gifts.  I got the knit cotton lycra fabric I need to make some lycra tops.  It's dance fabric, and I feel really lucky to have got it with a 50% off.  They actually HAD the right stuff for me!  And I bought 20 yards of the perfect elastic with another 50% off coupon.  That's my strategy, to look around for things that  I need, and wait until they go OFF sale so I can buy them with a coupon.  I hope Jo Ann's doesn't read my blog and change sale strategies on me. (*.*)  I passed out my extra coupon to a gal coming in the door who had forgotten hers.   We are all sisters on this planet, eh?

A few of the lampshades are starting to go South, so I'm going to make new ones.  It's really not very hard, and when I do this I'll show you how it's done.  Though they aren't the ones going bad, I only have a few that are technically challenging.  But, even those are pretty easy to do.  To be honest, it's fairly easy to make a whole lamp.  Lamps are my favorite pieces of home furnishing.  When we went to Hearst Castle years ago, I saw lamps I would have practically worshiped at.    A Rose Quartz Lamp will live in my memory forever.  It's gorgeous!  There are others, of course, but that's the one that stole all my lamp pheromones.

I'll plug pictures in when I get to the PC..   Have a great Day!