a curtain for my heart

"Which of us hasn't sat anxiously before the curtain of his own heart?  Up it goes"  R.M.Rilke

considering a green border

Don't do anything else. 

Just be an artist.

Live in a kind of regime.

Manage the time you are given.  

Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize for Literature 2018

how do we know when we are ourselves?

 Emily Dickenson hid herself away.  It was the only way she could create the condition she needed to write. (journal entry)

my grandmother's basket quilt

Simply to wake up to the very life we're living,

which is so excellent once one get's one's mind and one's desires out of its way

and lets it act of its own accord.     John Cage