A Letter To the Anita of April, 2018 / STITCHING
Dear Younger Anita, Thank you. I've come to appreciate you more in the past few days. There are a few little signs you left that I've recently stumbled upon that made me smile, and made my "new normal" just a bit easier. It's only been a few short months -- April to almost October, about 6 months -- but so much is different than when you were here. I am beginning to find my way back to a few things you used to do. One of them is sewing. I wanted to try to make some Angel Gowns. Younger Anita, you would spend an afternoon cutting out gowns, then a full day machine stitching and pressing, then a couple of evenings with the hand work -- turning out maybe a dozen or more gowns of different sizes. I dreaded trying to cut out the gowns, to be honest. Cutting them out is the only part I sort of dislike; for some reason it makes my back hurt -- it bothered YOU, Younger Anita, I know. I figured now it would take me most of a day, if not two days. But...