I’ve been participating in Adele Bruno’s weekly ‘It’s As String Thing’ challenges that she hosts on her website Tickled to Tangle, for a few months now.
However, I’ve been lax in sharing the tiles that I’ve completed for the weekly challenges since the spring. The last time I shared one of my tiles was almost 10 challenges ago. That was challenge 288 where Adele chose patterns for us to use that resembled spring flowers.
During the past few months, I’ve been trying to do more, in spite of the pain I live with daily.
Today, however, the pain forced me to do less. I can’t sit without feeling piercing pain through the right side of my pelvis from where a huge cyst was surgically removed almost four years ago, after I’d lived under the shroud of a misdiagnosis for two years. I also can’t stand without that same piercing pain shooting up and down my right leg and through my right hip.
“We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the ‘I’ behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.” ― Anaïs Nin, Author
This is one of my favourite quotes.
It reminds me that I—actually all of us—must be mindful of the assumptions and judgments we make about people in our lives and people in the world around us because we rarely know all the reasons, past or present, that affect someone’s actions and/or behaviours.
My Small Surrenders 