The ” MAGIC” of Fabric… a God Wink!

Dear Reader:

While I was on my cooking spaghetti binge during the tropical storm type weather that prevailed throughout the Lowcountry over Memorial Day Weekend … dropping off plates… like Hansel and Gretel’s bread crumbs… to neighbors and friends…I called Mary Lee… a fellow CSU teaching cohort and church member whose husband John is a fellow cancer crusader!!! Two of the nicest people I know!

Like me… Mary had made spaghetti too during the cool rainy holidays but said if I had a sauce that could be frozen for another rainy …come on over and let’s catch up…John was having a good day!

I have been in the Lees’ home before but it had been a long time and I had forgotten that they had a large glassed-in living room/ den that just transported me to the outside beauty of their peaceful domain!

I could feel the stress of some earlier crazy days melting away… BUT…then my eye caught a large framed wall hanging that the very talented seamstress, quilter ( anything to do with material ) maker Mary had made!

A God Wink! This was the type of scene I was looking for… in my mind for Wednesday’s ” Wanderlust” post! I was in love… I wanted to be in that scene so I begged Mary to email me a photo of it to share!

**Can you believe Mary made this? Instead of row by row watch my garden grow… Mary went the path of stitch by stitch … a talent beyond amazingly rich! Intricate details and design!**

Isn’t it mind-boggling that we can find individual beauty in our everyday lives… and then discover that if we put each object together in a mural effect… we have created a new secret paradise for our inner spirit to seek and dwell within?

So until tomorrow…

**Exactly the words to explain the powerful beauty in the hidden simplicity of God’s Handiworks!**

Today is my favorite day… Winnie the Pooh

**John was the architect behind the famous moon garden entrance gate… like all of us it has aged** … **in the last decade … but to me… just grown richer with time.**

*** When the grandchildren were all little…they crawled through the cut-out circle moon to go in the ” magic” garden where fairies and surcies lay hidden! Such sweet memories! Many special God Wink moments!

In 2014… I even got my moonflowers growing and blooming around the cut-out moon circle in the gate… never successful again but it was beautiful that one magical season!

**The lantana loved all the recent rain**s!

*** Hope everyone got off to a ” rabbit hopping” great first June Day!

**Can’t blame any rabbits for my hostas take over on the first day of June but Bambi must have returned!**

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

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