Today Tom watched the movie How to Make an American Quilt. I remember seeing this movie as a younger wife and mother in 1995…very much about how culture and belief is passed along through the making of artifaction (my word for the traditionally based fabrication of dance/music/artifacts within any culture). I was jarred by the lost dreams, infidelity, unfairness of life for these women and sided easily with, Winona Ryder’s character, the heroine who would follow her heart and mind – despite cost.

That was before a very difficult pregnancy, almost loosing the baby and myself in the process. Then, I had still more great loss to experience while following my heart…

A poem from the movie is

“Young lovers seek perfection.
Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together
and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”

I am now at the later stage.

Related website: the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113347/