Settling down to type, I realized I have been remiss. Can you be remiss if you didn’t know in the first place?
It’s far too Monday to be this pedantic.
It seems the wonderful Gail bought me a cup of coffee last Monday and I never saw it! I try to check because I don’t always get the emails, but somehow I missed it entirely, and on a Monday morning that was very much a coffee Monday. Thank you, Gail, honestly if you can believe it, I need the pick-me-up even more today than last week. I hope you didn’t feel slighted, I truly appreciate you. Thank you.
And the reason I realized I missed Gail’s coffee was because of the marvelous Deb, who sent me into the weekend nicely caffeinated. I guess I haven’t been terribly slick about my current state of scatter, thank you so much for at least attempting to pull me back with a cup of coffee. These days, we really need one another to stay afloat in quite a cluttered sea. I am so grateful for you.
Which brings me to Monday, in a very fitting way. I’m in one of those patches where it seems that things manage to just go…wrong. In big ways, in small ways.
I’ve been working on a sewing project, and it’s the first one I haven’t enjoyed. I don’t think there’s a seam I haven’t taken apart at least once, and even when I know what I’m supposed to be careful of doing, I seem to do it anyway.
Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten past that brand new phase where you expect everything to go wrong that it’s extra frustrating. Maybe this project is just frustrating. I do have to say the instructions, which came from AI, didn’t entirely help.
I want to sew a rectangular bag and I realized there were skills I needed to gain first, so this was supposed to be a stop on the road to there. Instead, I want to throw it out the window, littering laws or no littering laws.
I take that back. I don’t want to litter.
Intellectually I understand all of this is part of taking on a new set of skills. All of it is part of the creative process. If you never hit friction, you don’t grow or something like that, as I was typing that I started to wonder about it. I mean if you never hit friction you can probably go further, so once again, I question my own metaphor.
I mean sometimes friction rubs you the wrong way. But I digress.
The point is learning is a process. And we are learning all the time.
Now if someone can please explain the lesson of me not being able to get the blender open after making my smoothie, I’d appreciate it.
Anyway, that’s it for me on this bumpyish Monday. I will try to be less remiss, which I guess would only be “miss,” but that’s not making much sense.
Have an amazing, frictionless day.
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