I love it!  It's just great!!

Beth,

That is wonderful. Just wonderful. I have read this several times and enjoyed it. I am thinking of the front and back of the tapestry. It is good to simply enjoy the completed, wonderful thing as is. And let the rest be. Thanks for this.

I liked this a lot, too, and good acvice. The CD looks interesting, too, think I'll go check it out further...I'm always interesed in mew music.

Hi Beth, this is sooooo gooood!  :-)

I too like to see the tapestry from both sides (literally) but my life has pretty well been chance.  I used to call it 'open doors' but now with all these writers and their viewpoints perhaps I should say I was guided in life by 'serendipity.'

My poem is true, I was not looking for Mrs. Jim or anyone else that night, i just wanted a meal with friends.

Other aspects of my life were that way, employment, marriage, children, setbacks with 'silver linings' and just a lot of other things.  God has been good to me.  Even when I didn't do much planning.  

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I looked for your "voice in the dryer" but it has long gone.  Do you have an archieve accessible to us?

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Very cleverly done - in words, and the idea behind them.

I am laughing as I read this. My needlework looks like hell from the back. I would hate to be judged by it! Good poem.

Your take on serendipity certainly gives pause for thought.

I love the 'front and back' visual...Nice work!

hi beth,

ur poem is delightful

many thanks..

The third makes me want to view the tapestry from the front side

instead of always from the knotty, messy back.

Can argue with this. lol

Dear Beth,

I love the way your mind works. Or maybe it's:  I love that you've worked your mind.

This is satisfying and refreshing.

Thanks for thinking what you're thinking.

a very clever perception!  & it is a good reminder to take a step back & turn things over from time to time...

Loved this Beth! Yes, serendipity is pure whimsy in that it is both unpredictable and always unexpected! Speaking as a crafter of quilts, afghans and more, I look at both sides of everything! However, when done properly, even the back is not messy and knotty!

I am curious so always tend to turn things over to see the tiny knots but that does not stop from enjoying the tapestry.

Why am I reminded of Joni Mitchell?  

"I've looked at life from both sides now,

from up and down and still somehow

its life's illusions I recall,

I really don't know life at all."  

Grateful very much for the poem; it took me back to "another time's forgotten space."  

Very fine.  The front holds the essence of the artistry and the back reveals the effort, time and labor...