J is for...jump!

I am playing along with Katy from

nobigdill.com as she

Sews through the 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

This week's stitches are inspired by the letter "J".

 

 

See these guys here:

 

 

Yup those are the ones.

 

You can dress them up,

but they are still very wiggly.

 

 

And these ones: Leap-y too.

 

 

 

This cheeky monkey,

 

 

likes,

very much,

 

 

 

to jump.

 

 

To climb,

to leap

onto and off of things,

 even people.

 

 

 

(Rae pants, with Anna Maria  Horner Lou Lou Thi fabric)  

 

I guess most kids do.

 

 

This one,

 

 

started very slowly with the jumping

 

 

and now she's making up for lost time.

 

 

These two egg each other on.

 

 

There are puddles,

and leaves,

and life

to be jumped into.

 

 

It's going pretty slow and fast this kid thing.

 

You jump on each other,

and out jumps a baby.

Then (in my case) two more.

 

And then you spend looooong minutes

and short years

  jumping from

baby to toddler to teen etc.

 

From what I understand,

you jump down, turn around and it's all over.

 

 

I'm all for the leaping, and jumping.

 

I find myself jumping

from little questions to big ideas,

 

and of course jumping through

weird technicolour internal hoops

of my own

design.

 

In the flurry of leaping from moment to moment

there is not much down time to contemplate it all.

 

 

 

 

I'd like to stick all the good stuff in a bag

and carry it into my dotage.

 

 



 

I'd love to later,

when I'm batty and crotchety

reach into all these potent moments

 that feel like they are leaping at jet speed into the ether-

and braid them into my memory.

 

I'd love to slow down all the Little's big jumps,

and watch them again in slow-mo.

 

And then,

I'd like to lift my feet

 

 

fall back and jump into the place
 that catches us all.