Any time in my life when I have spare time, and things on my mind, I can use a distraction. Not so much an external stimulus type of distraction like seeing friends, but something to keep my mind focused on something other than the inside of my own brain.
A lot of the time, it’s reading. Lately I find that reading stimulates more writing which leads to more thinking, which can be too much, uh, thinking. There was a proper sentence in there somewhere. Let me know if you see it.
So what to do?
Some people meditate. Some people pray. I make something.
This weekend, I cleaning out the spare room and found a lot of fibery things I’d not done anything with. So I got out my spinning wheel, pulled some merino out of a bin and made some yarn. It is a little rustic, and I am out of practice…but it will make a useful and beautiful something or other. Probably a hat. I make a lot of hats.
Right now, I am trying to work on this green one.
I was on a driving ban after a procedure so I was stuck at home. Spinning and knitting count as doing something productive, so I can do something totally unproductive at the same time without pretending to feel guilty about it. Today it was a movie binge: Maltese Falcon, Meaning of Life and Hard Day’s Night.
And that means that I am not going to write anymore. I can’t write and watch the Beatles at the same time.
So ta for now.
