Unfinished Works

So much left to do, though the gifts received are opened, tried on, tasted, or read. I still have shopping, wrapping, writing and mailing to do before I'm finished with this holiday season.  As I was cleaning up, after trying again, a new recipe for squash, for dinner the other day, I thought, "Why make squash? Isn't there something else, that someone would really LOVE?"  Squash is pretty unique.  A few people really LOVE squash, and it's various versions.  Then, there are the majority of people who really HATE the look, taste and just the THOUGHT of squash, the vegetable.  I like it... I've decided that one of my unfinished jobs is to find something to make from squash that people will say, "yes, I'll try that."  MMM Good, what is it? I LOVE this!  Well, squash soup sounds like the thing for next year. I'm going to sign up for squash again, just for the challenge.

A friend writes, "Do something you really LOVE to do".  Besides draw and laugh with the little people we call children, and listen to how they talk and reason, I'm not clear on what I just LOVE or WANT to do before I'm finished here. Life truly is short. Do we really need squash?  Nature thought so; me too.

As I scrubbed my pans, I made a mental list, of things I MIGHT like to do SOME DAY.  Cookie sheets usually hold my favorite things. COOKIES are welcomed in most crowds, at most dinners or parties, but wouldn't it be great, if one day, to the whole world, SQUASH was well received? COOKIES are just so common, so ordinary (like most of my drawings!). If everybody LOVED SQUASH, now that would be something.

Scrubbing away, I also mentally listed people I've known in my life who are no longer living, or no longer in my life, too distant, or passed to another place or version of a different life.  Thoughts of them surface during holidays or life events. I ask myself if they'd had a checklist as the decades passed. As they sensed they were about finished with this life, or place, did they think that they'd done well or finished what they should have or could have or wanted to?  I look; I see things they've done, things they've created, objects they spent lots of time on, and I also see people they had some hand in "creating" so far.  Adding it all up, most of results are GOOD, like God said, when he'd finished creating the world! I'd really LOVE to make something, like He did, that continues to recreate itself better and better over the decades. So, I'll think on that - NEXT YEAR.