Onwards

 

The photo is an aerial view of the place where I live.  The town is situated on the confluence of two rivers, in a 'bowl' of higher elevation surrounding the downtown.  Over the years I have lived here (70 of them) the town has grown, changed, evolved.

So too do human beings.  We are presented with challenges, we learn to deal with them, either head on or over/around/under them.

But always, the march of time proceeds.  Minutes turn into hours which turn into days, which turn into months and eventually, years.

Humans live their lives out dealing with the ups and downs.

Personally I tend to scrape through the clouds looking for that proverbial silver lining.  I tend to try to find something that I can be grateful for, something of beauty, in every day.

Some days it's hard.

Some days the grief, or longing for something other becomes overwhelming.  But I have learned that everything is temporary.  I just need to get through this minute, this day, this week, and things will change.  Hopefully for the better, but if not, it will be different.  Just as the bad things don't last forever, neither will the good - you have to accept that there will be both appearing in your life at some point.

So my desire to get something for others to look forward to grew out of my trying to find that silver lining.  And I realized that we have the internet, and we don't need to remain completely isolated from each other so long as we can log on and use the technology.

Contacting weavers in far flung places has been fun and I can say that I now have the first six months of 2021 booked with speakers.  (I will offer my services if at the last minute someone has to cancel.)

I will be sending the list of speakers to the person working on this with me and she will also be looking at the logistics of registration.  Once we have our ducks in a row (so to speak) the info will go live.

But I feel like I have managed to get a really extraordinary list of speakers who will talk about cloth in a general enough way to interest a lot of folk.

I have committed to filling a slate for all of 2021 and may carry on into 2022.  I will see how my energy and contacts go.  But for now, with the first six months booked, I must turn my attention to MY presentation in November, and the guild sale, also in November and on into December.

Stay safe, stay well, virtual {{{hugs}}} to all who need one.