The Best Thing

 

The only thing better than sending a box of stuff to a magazine?  Is getting it back again.

(No previews - you'll see it soon enough.)

I've been writing articles for WEFT for, um, a year now.  They keep asking me if I'm interested in doing more and guess what?  

I *am*!  :D

It doesn't hurt that they encourage me to dig deep(er) and explore more.  And with the help of a friend, I've managed to roll the writing into my recovery.  I'm nearly at the 10 month point and after (more!) changes to my health and body maintenance, I can say that I'm actually seeing some progress.  When I write I don't need to 'proof read' every sentence.  Multiple times.  Now I can do paragraphs and some of them don't even need typos fixed.  The grammar is still a bit shaky but my friend gently catches them and helps with the editing.  A gift of love that means I can continue to write about what I love - weaving.  There is nothing quite like having a vigilant person riding 'shot gun' with you.

Today I think I am going to declare the current warp 'done'.  There will likely be a towel's worth of warp left, but I'm 'tired'.  And I'd like to move onto the next warp.  This warp has the 'samples' for another article for WEFT and I'd like to get them inspected/repaired and wet finished so that I can see what I have at the end of the long line of effort that takes threads and gets them woven into cloth.

The next warp will be another palate cleanser while I think about the two articles meant for the same issue.  Space in a magazine is at a 'premium' and I want to use 'good' illustrations - 'appropriate' illustrations.  I'd like to illuminate the topic - as best I can.  And again, I'm having to dig deep and think about how best to do that.

Will I succeed?   Time will tell, and the readers will decide if I've done a good enough job.

But I can continue to write, think and breathe weaving.  And for now?  That's enough.