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This month has been busy with spinning demonstrations and music, not to mention my seeds came.

But one thing that made me stop in my tracks was a sweet and lovely 3-year-old boy last week.

I was demonstrating spinning at a small Waldorf school here in TC and was working with the kiddos showing them how a drop spindle works...This little guy picked it up incredibly fast! He was spinning nearly on his own! It made me stop and think about how we over complicate things. I mean, really, It's yarn. It's not brain surgery (thank goodness!).
On other fronts, I changed the strings on my lovely guitars and made some cast-off string craft.

New slogan maybe? "STRINGS! They're not just for instruments anymore."
On more serious thoughts...Finding that of "light" or God in ourselves as well as those around us... This may seem a little heavy for here, but It's been following me around most insistently in the past week or more.
I strive to see the things that are good and bright in people around me. I search out the light in a being. BUT I find myself falling into that all too common trap of dimming my own light. Where is my sense of the sacred in myself? How can I call the spark in another holy and refuse to see it mirrored in my own life? I think that perhaps it's easier to push down what we ourselves are as a means of lifting others instead of celebrating that same difference as the light. Phew.

So, here I am trying to undo that weight. I want to appreciate my talents as they are and not as they have been or might someday be, but just as I stand now in THIS moment. I want to realize I am imperfect and lovely. That vulnerability is beautiful when we embrace it. It's all kinds of freeing. And I plan on jumping in.

HUZZAH!

But one thing that made me stop in my tracks was a sweet and lovely 3-year-old boy last week.

I was demonstrating spinning at a small Waldorf school here in TC and was working with the kiddos showing them how a drop spindle works...This little guy picked it up incredibly fast! He was spinning nearly on his own! It made me stop and think about how we over complicate things. I mean, really, It's yarn. It's not brain surgery (thank goodness!).
On other fronts, I changed the strings on my lovely guitars and made some cast-off string craft.

New slogan maybe? "STRINGS! They're not just for instruments anymore."
On more serious thoughts...Finding that of "light" or God in ourselves as well as those around us... This may seem a little heavy for here, but It's been following me around most insistently in the past week or more.
I strive to see the things that are good and bright in people around me. I search out the light in a being. BUT I find myself falling into that all too common trap of dimming my own light. Where is my sense of the sacred in myself? How can I call the spark in another holy and refuse to see it mirrored in my own life? I think that perhaps it's easier to push down what we ourselves are as a means of lifting others instead of celebrating that same difference as the light. Phew.

So, here I am trying to undo that weight. I want to appreciate my talents as they are and not as they have been or might someday be, but just as I stand now in THIS moment. I want to realize I am imperfect and lovely. That vulnerability is beautiful when we embrace it. It's all kinds of freeing. And I plan on jumping in.

Why not, right?