| “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
— Aldous Huxley
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Over a toffee nut latte this morning with Señor España, I mulled over my tendency to switch from one art/craft/project to another like a lights flashing, siren sirening ambulance changes lanes. Quickly and often.
I wondered aloud if it was necessarily a negative thing, like Project Attention Deficit Disorder (totally making that up…I think) or could it just be ‘ok’? Is it a sign that I can’t focus and/or am destined to NEVER land on any one artistic language long enough to make it my own…or am I just a project butterfly? I don’t know. Setting aside the pondering for now and giving a huge nod to ‘lightly’. Current lane change detailed below.
Years (and years and years and years) ago, my mom began crocheting a rag rug for me but for one reason or another set it aside and there it sat. For years. Like 35 years.
This weekend a friend came over with a handful of crochet hooks and a large dose of ‘instructor patience’ and taught me what I need to know to pick up where mom left off and finish the rug. I’m giving it a practice shot with an old sheet, some fabric of gramma’s and a skirt that hasn’t been worn in ages and was begging to be turned into something useful.
