It Takes Time

  Time is a great healer.  Time is a great teacher.  Time is a great mediator. Time is just about all we need and, yet for some reason, time is so fleeting.  At least in my case, I never have enough of it to do what I want. Perhaps I am lazy and dillydally about all day but I can never accomplish all I had grand ideas to do.  Once I retire for the evening, I plan what needs to be done the next day.  It seems so simple.  Surely, I can reach my goals and then have time for crafting.  It never happens that way. Son says I set unrealistic goals.  He claims that I do not allow myself to slow down and accept what is possible.  Maybe?

  Time, however, does bring about some really good things.  Darling Daughter gave me a bottle of her homemade pear vinegar.  There are a number of pear trees in her yard and as she canned the fruit, it kept nagging at her that she was wasting parts of the pears.  The peels and cores had to be good for something.  She opted to make wine. Letting the pears ferment took time...lots of time. Weeks and weeks passed without anything "good" appearing to happen but deep down in that jar things were developing...growing into something marvelous.  During the process, the pear cores and peels started to change from scraps to something wonderful. A few missteps along the way caused a snaffu. Instead of wine, her pears turned to vinegar but it was an amazing vinegar!  She was happy with the results even though things did not turn out quite as expected.  Like the vinegar, occasionally, it just takes time for us to realize our full potential.  It takes time to grow, to develop and to even learn to accept what we can or cannot achieve. 

  Not only did time bring the vinegar to its full term, it showed me something else.  Darling Daughter has inherited a timeworn trait that has been passed down generation to generation.  It has been drilled into our heads that we should not waste...anything.  "Waste not, want not" reverberated throughout my childhood and then later I repeated it to my kids.  I was happy to see that my daughter has learned that lesson well.