what's next

ruthrae's blog and website are filled with the type of fabric-art pieces I see in the magazines, as well as descriptions of her recent quiltshow experiences and snaps of her friends -- makes me want more than ever to hit the show in Chicago mid-April, though I'm gently lobbying for a trip to Atlanta right now as well (not because Norcross is a place anyone should yearn to go, but simply to have a plan for finding some space and a purpose under the heavens.) The Chicago trip would involve attending a big quilt and fabric show -- dangerous timing against the promise of refund checks -- while Norcross would be business, but either would inject some life into this gal. I'm still zonked out by the recent bookkeeping marathon at work, and have been stalled on the Desire piece for a couple of days -- somehow it's easier to type than to sew and paint, right now.

Not that these are real problems -- inspiration, space, needing a break -- I have friends with much more concretely challenging issues.

The Norcross potential (funny, sounds like a sequel to "The Bourne Ultimatum") came up at lunch today -- my monthly aside with CP -- wherein the future of the church was discussed in terms of its development to date and its context as a "new" church in the community. Norcross is a "boot camp" (lousy sales language there) for folks interested in church planting. Typically a church plant is an offshoot congregation that spring from a larger established church (not the context at NECL), and the process has engendered its own industry experts -- who lead boot camp training conferences on how the process should be guided. We aren't looking to sprout anything, being a newly consolidated version of three older, struggling churches. But the theory might in some ways be applicable to that which we may become. So -- Norcross would be educational, Chicago fun, and the likelihood of either is still thin at this point.

H. is having a restless night for reasons unknown. Time to give up on productivity for the evening.