A Daily Look Within – Day 18

At some point, might we incorporate some of the older yarn in the newer items we create? How many things might we create, only to give them away to persons who may be less fortunate? Could some piece of my family’s work travel on to eventually help someone in another country half way around the world so many years later?

This may cause us to think of other such work that lives on long after we are gone. There are documents and other family mementos, of course; but there are also written works or arts and crafts that can have a life of their own. They may be given away as gifts or sold second-hand so that someone else may utilize them. Like the afghans we inherit, they are crafted with care and mindfulness that lasts long after the creators are gone. The spirit in their work lives on.

Like crochet, every craft or masterpiece is constructed with only one thread or one “something” at a time. Writing this piece takes one letter after another, one word after the next. In music, each note or rest is arranged in a particular rhythmic order, time signature, or pattern. In art, each painting is one brush stroke after the next; in drawing, it is one line after another, until a more complete scene is depicted. Everything, from the smallest project like a little birdhouse to a life-size family home, begins with one piece at a time. In the end, we have a masterpiece that is worthy of admiration for all that goes into it, which can be appreciated and used for quite a while.