Behind the scenes I have been working on new routines. Ducking below the chaos, downshifting and creating more space in my life. If you haven’t heard this podcast with Cal Newport on Deep Work, it is a must listen. It helped me to realize the thing I was most grasping for, solitude and the want to slow down and sink in, was right within reach if I was willing to claim the space and time for it. I had become so harried with the responsibilities that I had loaded my life up with these past few years since starting a business, alongside raising a family, that I had actually forgotton how to take the time to stop, integrate all of it and decide if it was really working well for me. A lot of it wasn’t, especially the relentless pace in which I was moving and the stockpiling of creative ideas I kept thinking I would get to one day. I no longer wanted just snippets of my weaving life being barely squeezed into the rest of my life. I wanted the creative work to return front and center so that everything felt right and true.
Now, more time and space is being made not just weaving, but for sinking in more deeply and allowing the work to be understood. And the beautiful, abstract and undeveloped stockpile of ideas are being tended to, which as a result feeds more presence and calm into the other areas of my life.
Strip and plaid studies in 10/2 cotton.