Metaphors: quilts, steam, lights

COMMENTARY

HANABA MUNN WELCH

Live long enough and your life is like a quilt — stages patched together. I’m looking now at a piece of my maroon corduroy pep squad skirt sewn into a quilt. Pep squad was for all of us not cut out to be cheerleaders. Sort of a consolation prize.

Anyway, if life is like a quilt can we instead simply say life is a quilt? Does that make “quilt” a metaphor? I’m asking.

My dic…