Sneak Peek

 

I got the file for the next issue of WEFT this morning and read through my article.  Since I wove the projects last year, before The Fall, I am very pleased to see this article appear in the magazine.  It was - technically - a fairly difficult project, and can I just brag on the fact that they turned out well?  

There has been little enough for the past 12+ months to celebrate (for me, personally) and seeing this article appear right now has been a...tonic.

I continue my roller coaster ride, never knowing what each day is going to present.  My energy simply refuses to come back, no matter how I sigh and kick the wheels.  I find it...concerning...how little I care that I am turning into a lump, content to sit and doom scroll.  Or fiddle with jigsaw puzzle pieces.  

Is this what 'getting old' means?  That you just don't much care anymore?

So I look for the things that I *do* care about.  And every time I search, the only 'thing' I care about is trying to help others.  

I have started reading the one file I am 'reviewing' for someone else and that does bring me satisfaction, especially a manuscript I am enjoying reading.  Most of my feedback has been minor 'nits' and lots of pom-pom shaking.  I know the other file - once it comes - will be as satisfying.

But for myself?  I have two more issues of WEFT topics to look at and see if I can drag forth some energy to generate to write something.  So I may not.  Not that the topics aren't within my ability to do - I just don't know if I have the energy to dig into them the way I'd like to do.  Given that the current issue took several months of my time - sample, more samples, yet more samples, weaving and re-weaving the actual 'finished' cloth, then writing it up, editing, more editing, clarifying what I meant with the editors (because by then I had the brain bleed I was trying to work around - and thinking was *hard*), I'm not so sure I can manage it right now.  But maybe I'm just not approaching the topic from the 'right' angle - for me?

Anyway, I took a quick glance at some of the other articles in the upcoming issue.  I think it's a very nice issue.  I hope everyone will take a look.  Like Jacey says, maybe we can all find some pleasure in the coming months by weaving.  I know I will be - once I get the loom ready to go.