Slow Down Or You Might Miss The Details

This Mariner's Compass quilt was made by a woman who's son-in-law was just deployed to Iraq for his 3rd tour. I did the machine quilting on it. Take a look at the fabrics 'fussy cut' in the compasses!
Some of the soldier's favorites...Nemo... Mr. Incredible...And of course the marines are in there too!

Sometimes I think I move too fast and forget to look carefully at the details. This is a poem I heard recently that made me stop and think:

Slow Dance, by David L. Weatherford

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round

Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

Do you run through each day on the fly

When you ask "How are you?"

do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,

do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow

And in your haste,

not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

'Cause you never had time

to call and say "Hi"?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast

Time is short

The music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away...

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

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Now get back to work Vivian! But don't forget to slow down now and then...