Finding the return key in the darkness

Welcome back Lulu.

With some important things in life out of my control, I have had no choice but to return to the things that keep me afloat in times of uncertainty and disappointment.

Why is it that the things we try very hard to invoke elude us and the things that are off our radar come to fruition?

Almost without trying, I have had some pretty amazing things come into place already this year:
a film at the Tate
a show in Birmingham
acceptance into an online textiles store
featured in a pattern compendium

It feels good...and its been a while.

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