The Things We Do For Love

Sometime last summer I snagged a bag of kids' blocks at the thrift shop.  Not the cute little alphabet blocks, but the big, chunky stack-up-to-build-a-fort kind of blocks.  As you surely understand, I had NO clue what to do with them, only that they were intrinsically valuable.  For something.  Sometime.  Of course they were.  And they were only three bucks for the whole bag!

So I put them in a wire hanging basket, and mostly forgot them, except for peering at them once in a while.

But last week, when I went in to my studio to meditate on what I could do to avoid cleaning it, the blocks spoke up, and one in particular had an idea for me.

This idea joined with some little bean-stalk seeds planted by a novel I'd been unable to forget (Jasper Fforde's "The Big Over Easy"--you'll never be able to forget it either...) to become my version of Humpty Dumpty.  Only Humpty, regardless of any king's horses or men, DID manage to put himself together, because you see...he was motivated.

Sometimes, we just have to keep it together for the kids' sake.

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