Current Quilt

This is my current obsession. It is a progress photo which I like to take from time to time to give me a better sense of how well a quilt is coming together. It's pinned up on my 'quilt wall' and I won't sew it together until I have assembled all of it. I'm currently debating whether to make it bigger and if I have enough fabric to do that. It is going to go on our bed...it's taken me ten years to get around to making a quilt for us. I'm posting this photo because, aside from making a potato salad with green beans  and potatoes from our garden, it is the only thing I've done today.

While cutting and sewing, I listened to a history of the environmental movement in this country and,  in spite of  enacting really meaningful environmental legislation in the 70's  (under Richard Nixon of all people), the factors which caused us to drop the ball. Nixon had no interest in the environment, but he was smart enough to know that at that point in history, cleaning up pollution of the air land and water were all enormously popular. The rest of the story of how we got from being so close to where we are now is really depressing. Progress has been made...The passage of the Clean Water Act means the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland no longer catches fire, and the Clean Air Act means that it is possible to take a deep breath in the Los Angeles basin, where I grew up,  without it hurting, but we have done too little to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel which is destroying the atmosphere and contributing to the climate change that has become so obvious in the last decade. Looking out the window onto another cooler day with clearing skies. I renewed my determination to live one day at a time, as speculating on the future seems pointlessly frustrating .

Acting on a suggestion from blipper Freespiral, I managed to locate a British television program called 'The Detectorists', which follows a group of metal  dectorists. A metal detector is the device they all use to find buried treasure, we are told. The characters are wonderfully quirky and although the premise seems a bit far fetched, it works quite well not only as a vehicle for comedy, but to take on a few more complicated issues. I was quite disappointed then, having binge watched it through three seasons, to discover that Mackenzie Crook, the writer, director and a primary actor, wants to 'do other things' and isn't committing to doing another season. I was starting to get quite fond of them and I'm going to miss them.