lover_of_old_things rubydee today five quilts came my way in two different ways four old family heirlooms passed down through the years until someone kondo’d them away and straight into my heart hand-stitched, classic designs, a 1940’s creation of “wedding rings” perfect for our twenty-five year marriage bed the last was delivered by a kind nurse looking to cover the city in handmade designs by a dear friend sharing the same name knowing the same pain of the flood the loss. the stretch and struggle endless days and sleepless nights bodies wracked with pain and brain with never ending images and nightmares and feelings of things_that_go_bump_in_the_dark smother_me mother_me rock_me_to_sleep 241025 what's it to you? who go blather from