some leftovers

christmas is over, the time inbetween is over, epiphany is over, why leave the stars on the table runner?
i don't know. we got most of our decorations for the festive time of advent and christmas as well as epiphany cleaned up, and still i could not help but felt like i wanted to keep the ornamental stars on the table. hang on and linger for a moment longer. keeping the memories awake of the past few weeks. dreaming on a bit longer into the new year. so there they are on our living room table runner, with some tree-ornaments and then i grabbed a few pieces of driftwood from the past vacation week we spent in italy. what is it, hanging on to last year?
i decided that it's really no big deal, just loving to have some pretty things around me, some nature in the house and yes it is pleasing to my eyes. i'm not too much of a melancholic person, what's past is past and it was nice or maybe not so wonderful, though we move on, take the good with us and leave the bad behind. i try to keep improving and learning and there is of course some analyzing going on too in my mind. processing and changing some every day doings. trying to stay flexible and improve what has not worked well in the past. though i'm also not really thinking and planning too much of goals to be achieved more writing lists and developing ideas which seem to evolve in the every day doing.
maybe that's why i want to keep some "old" things, reminders, ideas, shapes on the table runner. feeling like they are pointers, strong points of reference. well that is a bit a strong word, though pondering and developing has interesting starting points and that it is, i guess, i felt like keeping the stars within my view to be reminded that they are kind of in my reach. not just have been up there in the sky, but still are and wanting to jump and leap and keep going.