Unfinished projects - collaborations

This week I am selling my house, buying another, and collaborating with a colleague to complete an 80 page report.

All of my half finished projects lead into greater creativity, even a better project if the collaborations are constructive.

I work well with my colleague. I am verbose and obtuse, and she is short to the point of bluntness....she edits my extremities and I soften her edges. We know when to
relinquish the writing and become the editor. It works.

The house I am leaving represents 14 years of hard toil...it was just a compacted unfenced field when I came, and now
it is rich and green with a thousand trees and shrubs. But fresh eyes and new ideas will take it further. I have transformed this five acres of earth, and nothing can diminish that. The house I am going to represents another woman's 14 years of hard toil in restoring a neglected 130 year old Victorian colonial  house. But there is a two acre hillside behind that house that needs my touch. I can visualise it now, and all the long afternoons it willdemand in transformation.

I have a friend who rescues abandoned tapestry projects from e-Bay. Another friend has patiently, magnificently,  completed something her mother began decades ago.  I love the half done, undone, incomplete things that I acquire...like my fibre jar with all the wound-up ends of old projects...it finished up in an antique store and now I an unravelling and re working.

I suspect my children are unfinished projects that their own partners and children go to work on.  And in one sense I am also unfinished, full of more projects that I am keeping for another day.