Time and Again, But Wait, No

I’ve tripped into another rabbit hole and this one is really sticking with me.  I heard a reference to the “Mandela Effect”, and so went to youtube to investigate.  I found oodles of videos explaining it, and giving examples of it.  The Effect is basically that there are large groups of people who have specific memories about things (historical events, spellings, quotes, logos) that evidently, never were true.  It is considered to be about timelines that are actively altering, and is often blamed on what CERN has been up to.

I have no idea where the truth lies (a favorite oxymoron, and learn its grammar here ) but I do know I got sucked into the potentials.  I remember Jiffy peanut butter, it was “Luke, I am your father,” I know it was Dr. Bragg’s apple cider vinegar, and there is no way Jean-Luc Picard fiddled with some random decor crystal in over 70 episodes of Star Trek: TNG.  I loved Jean-Luc and crystals too much at the time to have overlooked something like that.

All of this has got my brain scrambled.  Which isn’t such a bad thing, since creativity benefits from out-of-the-brain* thinking.  So how am I unwinding from all of this? How can I straighten out these tangled time threads? How can I ground out all this instability and chaos?  Well, I can make a rug.  I could use a rug.  I’m going to just get really anchored in my Now moment, and make a rug.

I’ve had some fabric jelly rolls I’ve been meaning to use (at least in my current supposition about my past, I have them, and have meant to use them.) I decided to also use some of that wonderful cotton clothesline that is left from my other recent projects (see my Projects page).  Touring the internet for ‘clothesline jelly roll rugs” I found two concepts that appealed to me.  One incorporated no-skid backing and had a woven look to it, the other had a classic rag-rug look that I like.  I opted to design my own rug, and answer my own questions.

Starting with the wonderful, eternal  spiral of a fabric jelly roll,  I’m going to unwind it, straighten out the strips and align them all in a nice, finite way that my mind can comprehend, and my feet can stand upon.  I will have a lovely center point from which I can let go of my attachment to the past and go-with-the-flow to enjoy my future.  This launch into researching the Mandela Effect may have me trippin’ but my new no-skid backed rug won’t.

* Thank you Mandela Effect. For those of you who remember “out-of-the-box” thinking, that only applies to Schrödinger’s cat now. Cats in general, actually. **

Do you remember the Great Box Shortage of 2018?

** Ok, I just made that up.

Instructions for Fabric-Sheathed Clothesline Rug, on the way…really, in all timelines, on the way.