--Alice Walker
That sentence captures what drives me when I make things. Whether sewing clothes or building furniture, I am creating in a way that heals me.
One challenge that I face is that beauty is so easy to find online. There are so many pictures. I get a big hit of euphoria when I overload myself with beauty, as is easy to do. You can see one of my picture collections here.
Beauty is also easy to find if you want to just shop for it.
But if you want to be a maker of beautiful things, you will have to adjust to a slower pace. Rather than scrolling or clicking, you must go slowly and patiently, and wait days or weeks for your creation, which will not be perfect, to be completed. It's a real thing though. And it's all yours.
So I'm wondering if I should take a break from all the pretty pictures I love to look at online. It's too much! And it satisfies me before I even lift a finger to make the things i want to make.
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