{"id":5052,"date":"2020-05-06T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2020-05-06T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:00:25","slug":"arranging-the-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2020\/05\/arranging-the-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Arranging the pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He\nwas arranging the pieces into words, but he could never quite manage to make\nthe word he wanted<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian\nAndersen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We put a puzzle together last week. Not so many pieces, but\nat last she was ready. She’d never been patient enough for puzzles before. But\nnow we are ready to try anything to pass the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There would not have been so much time if I hadn’t lost my\njob. My job took a lot of time. But now we have even more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nAnd we need a new puzzle. I asked around and a friend gave me one she had\nfinished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The magic cannot be invoked twice. It must be passed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new puzzle magic was bigger though. We started it like\nthe last one, on the kitchen table, handling the pieces and familiarizing\nourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not long before I recognized a problem. This was not\na quick puzzle. We would need this table to eat from before the puzzle was\ndone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had to be moved to another surface. We brought in side\ntables and this took some of the joy out. Still, we had made progress–we’d\nfound all the corner pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the puzzle work was set aside in another room for later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And later came sooner than I thought. That very night I work\nup in the dark. Hours passed. Sleep would not return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when the horizon turned light, I turned to the puzzle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the fog and the tired, I tried to arrange these\npieces. My thoughts, my future, my goals, my life and I just found the corner\nof that book.  But where is the mouse\nright next to the corner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was sure we had lost pieces in the transfer. And in my\nsleepless fog I was sure I was missing pieces on the plan for the future, and\nthe plan for the present which sure should have been better than trying to put\ntogether a cat puzzle alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting the puzzle together was not hard. I could do it. And\nmaybe I could come up with a plan for the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remembered the story of the Snow Queen, one of the darkest\nscenes when the magic-deceived boy Kay is left by the wicked snow queen to put\nthe pieces of the ice puzzle together. The wicked queen has left him to die of\ncold, but he is determined to put the pieces together. His faithful friend\nsaves him from the impossible deadly task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh there is the mouse, finally! I really thought I had lost\nthe piece. I am not Kay. And even Kay was rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will come together. Yes, I may have lost a piece in all\nthe moving, which will be sad. It will still be okay. Order will come out of\nchaos, with time and attention and a whole lot of little actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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