This is what I do when my mind is racing. And it has been, recently.
I can't seem to find a better way to quiet my mind while the rest of me feels like being silent.
In related news this quote that I spotted on my Kat's blog has been speaking to me lately:Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening[…]Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
- Alice Walker
Amazing, right? Right.
(Apologies for the unreadability of that quote. I can't seem to figure out what is going on with the type and I have embroidery to get back to)
(Apologies for the unreadability of that quote. I can't seem to figure out what is going on with the type and I have embroidery to get back to)
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Beautiful. I've been experiencing some of that lately. I've just been thinking of it as the discomfort of having to go outside my comfort zone, but I'm much happier to think of it as growth!
It's been far too long since I did any embroidery.
{{{{{hugs}}}}}
You do such beautiful hand work! Your knitting especially makes me jealous! I finally retired my needles because they cried out loud whenever I tried to knit! We need more pictures of your handiness!
What beautiful creations you have on the go. I hope we will see them when they are finished. x
I wish I was there to give you a gigantic hug. And then we could cry together. Lots of love from a friend, Mandy. I'm thinking of you.
PS. AMAZING embroidery.
For those who have cantreadalluppercaseitis. I have it - but luckily I don't have cantreadrunonsentencecompoundworditis. Studying german really paid off...
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening[…]Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.
well, i wish those were the results of my racing brain. i love that quote. glad i found your blog.
What beautiful work! I should have known that you could not only teach me of felting but also embroidery (I've been really kicking around the idea of giving it a whirl--I LOVE the way it works and I think I would enjoy the process--in the meantime, however I'm still making Christmas stockings and a knit snake....) Anyway. So, we'll get to hang out soon, right? and talk, right? So hoping to live by you in a year.....
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