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Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. ~Albert Einstein
I still remember vividly my grandmother handing me a crochet hook and a skein of yarn and with her smoker's voice said, "Have at it." I was a wild child, would rarely sit still, my attention span lasted two and a half seconds.
My grandmother, aka Memaw, was brilliant. She knew what she was doing. She taught me the chain stitch and probably had a moment to sit in her own stillness without me all up in her face.
I spent the entire day quiet. Hours upon hours.. Sitting. Calm.
I must've chained the entire skein because her basement was wrapped in a football size length yarn nightmare! I was 10. She didn't put another hook in my hand until I was 16.
Since then, I have found calm and beauty in the repetitious movements. The back and forth. People may say it's boring. I say it's cathartic. It relaxes the ever-present "go go go" of my brain. Plus, there is something amazing to have a ball of yarn and make a blanket or scarf from it. I call that magic!
When I was sent home to quarantine in March, I didn't realize that it would awaken a creative part of me.
I have a travel blog: (www.thistlesandcoos.com)
that I have launched with a travel partner in crime so we are able to release the creative juices there.
Of course, I had to add the shameless plug here on this blog because I can't help myself! Check it out, we really do have fun with it.
So, #squirrel, in March, I sat in my comfy chair drinking coffee, wondering what I will do to keep myself sane while social distancing and my husband says, "Go get your yarn, you definitely have enough." He's not spiteful at all, I tell myself. #yourinthedoghouse
I shook it off at first. Actually, I was stubbornly REBELLING! I'm in my 40s, why would I want to start something new? I didn't have the excuse of, "I don't have enough time", because at that moment, I had 24/7 available to me.
"Learn something new" kept going over and over in my thoughts, keeping me awake at night or getting me up way early. I rarely step out of my comfort zone when I don't know how to do something. Which stops me from really branching out, "I don't know how to edit videos" or "I don't know how I would market myself".
I decided to bite the bullet and go for it. Learn something new everyday. As I write this blog, I am in day 69 of the "stay at home". In that, I have crocheted until my carpel tunnel has done nothing but scream at me to put the hook DOWN! I can't.
I have been inspired to learn something new and to teach by videos, mentoring, tutorials. I have to say that this 40-something year old is loving the "getting up early, writing, working on videos, trying a new pattern, messing up and throwing what I am working on in the trash".
69 days! Thank you quarantine!
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Thanks y'all,
NatalieLucille
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