Sunni Brown on TED explains why doodling is good and good for you! (I think we already knew that).
Very old little piece, re-found while rummaging. King’s Cross, still a fav pattern after all these years. Pressing it was a humbling lesson in how far we’ve come.
OK maybe it was more like 5 minutes or so…
I got out of work about 40 minutes late. Got in my car, started driving, got off at exit 5. Drove up central, pulled into a lot. Got out of my car and the door of the building was still open.
As I went in I called out “I’m sorry, I know you’re about to close!”
A man’s voice said, “No problem at all.”
In a couple of minutes he had answered all my questions*, apologized for being out of brochures, told me I could come back anytime and invited me to have a seat.
And that, my friends, is how I got to sit inside a 2012 red Fiat 500!
* Including: Availability of manual models? Mileage? Do they come with a young italian guy?
Answers: Plentiful. 42. Yes.
I do small pieces with many colors of thread used for the stitching. It’s helpful to have lots of bobbins ready to go. I have a doughnut holder of bobbins too. I notice that only a couple of my bobbins are empty at the moment. Generally I have 6-10 empty. These are just for the bernina.
Yet in that hour was put to the proof that which Mithrandir had spoken, and help came from the hands of the weak when the Wise faltered. For, as many songs have since sung, it was the Periannath, the Little People, dwellers in hillsides and meadows, that brought them to deliverance.
For Frodo the Halfling, it is said, at the bidding of Mithrandir took on himself the burden, and alone with his servant he passed through peril and darkness and came at last in Sauron’s despite even to Mount Doom; and there into the Fire where it was wrought he cast the Great Ring of Power, and so at last it was unmade and its evil consumed.
The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead.
