I very seldom erase a new blog and start over but I just did. Usually I have an idea and I go with it come hell or high water without second guessing. But today I had two ideas and one won out at the expense of the other.
The thing that is really trying to get out of me is the idea that if I come back to this world I want to come back as your lucky shirt. I realize that would mean being in a lot of different places at once and looking like a lot of different things but maybe that won’t be a problem. Anyway, I want to be that shirt/blouse that you have had for a long time and it fits you perfectly and comfortably always. It never seems to be too thick or too thin, too warm or too cool, too dark or too light. It always makes you look good, not to dressy not to casual. You want to say that you are welcoming and warm at the same time that you project a certain sense of decorum but well short of fussiness.
Whoever made me sewed the buttons on like they should and my whole being is functional although you just now noticed a little fray around one of the cuffs and oh there is the small spot on the collar that is slightly worn. Just enough to know that you have to pamper me and know that my time needs to be drawn out and savored.
And then one day tragically I won’t survive the washing machine and you will have to prepare me for burial at sea or your equivalent. You will be torn (nice pun), your feelings will be mixed. And in the end we will have a long drawn out goodbye.
Yea, love, Felipe.
I was imagining the design while I read this…… and then I realized you have shirts designed yes, from the camino? Or did they? If you want to we can make sure your people have a shirt designed by you to remember you by for years to come. But let’s not be too morbid on this Sunday morning….xxoo
Nancy ~ yes we had a T-shirt. I was thinking more of being your own ndividual favorite shirt. Like I would wait for months in the catalog or at the second hand store till you found me and I would be that perfect shirt for you. It could work! Felipe.x
Sweet. Sweet. Sweet.
Gracias. Gracias. Gracias. Thanks for the invite yesterday. Felipe.x
Listen to the song, This Shirt, by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Jean ~ yes, that is it exactly. Thank you Jean. Felipe.x
Oh Phil Volker- you have a beautiful and poetic mind.
Dana ~ Gracias, have been reading Brian Doyle lately. It must be rubbing off. Felipe.x
Remembering watching Phil’s Camino at your house, where you are wearing YOUR favorite shirt, in the film and on the couch! You could do a tally count of all the days you wear that shirt:). And then make sure you leave it for Rebecca someday so she can wear it… I love this blog so much.
Michelle ~ thanks, yea, the favorite/lucky shirt thing is hard to beat. The thing came to me at Mass today. Hope to see you soon. Felipe.x
This reminded me of my favorite shirt and how if I could, I would wear it everyday. But it also made me think of friendships and how they are like that favorite shirt. They bring comfort and joy, and you just never get tired of being around them. They are life’s treasures…gifts for sure! They make you feel LUCKY indeed!
Walking with you on your journey through reading your blog has been like that friend. I look forward to reading it everyday. Thank you for sharing!
Remembering a quote: “No one is really alone on the Camino. Buen Camino!”
Loretta ~ it too bad that a lucky shirt is hardly ever a brand new shirt, maybe never. It needs to be frayed and near unraveling giving us little time. Felipe.x
If you were my lucky shirt, and some days I think you are,
I would wear you everyday, until
I had mended you
so many times,
you were nothing more than threads.
Then, I would wind you onto a wooden spool
painstakingly shaped and sanded,
and sew you into a new shirt
luckier than the first.
HA! look at this little impromptu poem that you post inspired
Catherine ~ it’s the lucky shirt domino effect. Where will it end? Felipe.x
Felipe,
I will need to censure your blog, or leave it by the end of the day. I read it in my lunch break and the rest of my afternoon went away thinking what I would like to be next time around… I am not sure if I ever heard anyone saying that would like to reincarnate as a lucky shirt, but that is not a bad thing to come back as!
I am glad you abandoned your other thought for the post, no matter how good the other one could have been, this was great and it awaken lots of thoughts on your female audience! 🙂
Fabric hugs,
Cris
Cris ~ glad you liked it. It was fun putting it together. Looking for the next one. Fabric hugs some more, Felipe.