bee creative

shelter

This is a bit of a ramble. 

I wonder often about creativity.  How it comes to us.  Why some people are considered creative.  Why some people don't consider themselves creative. 

For me it is often about finding connections and curiosity and problem solving. 

For one of the Magic Diaries posts, Jude spoke about rings and connections and making meaning.   As I was listening to the audio clip she had made, I was finishing some of the last rows on my sweater.  It started me thinking about how knitting in the round is all about building ring upon ring, one row at a time until it becomes something more.  Generally some sort of shelter.  And that led me to the understanding that what ultimately draws me to cloth, is that cloth is about giving shelter.  Even perhaps something made for the wall that we might consider decorative might also be a form of insulation.  Or perhaps shelter for our hearts and souls.  Such an important thing, shelter. 

Originally the word or concept I wanted to explore for 2012 was "current" but I'm wondering if "shelter" might be a better direction, a better focus.  Or perhaps they will connect a bit.  We often need shelter from air currents or water currents; electrical currents travel through our homes and our bodies. 

And then...as connections seem to come to me; I read in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard:

"We found other caddisfly cases that day, Sally and I, after I had learned to focus so fine, and I saved one.  It is a hollow cylinder three quarters of an inch long, a little masterpiece of masonry consisting entirely of cemented grains of coarse sand only one layer thick... The caddisfly larva will use any bits it can find to fashion its house...."

Ring after ring...building shelter. 

 

 

following one word...cut

Last weekend I cut my hair.  About 13 inches came off. 

Everyone keeps asking me how it feels?

Answer:  lighter. 

It started me thinking about things that get cut and about words and about letting go.

A "cut and come again" lettuce mix.   The idea being to cut the lettuce, rather than harvest the whole head, so that it grows a second batch of leaves.

Pruning is the act of cutting branches. 

Cut strings, fabric, wood, paper, food, corners.  Cut to the chase. 

Edit. 

Cutting calories, to remove foods out of the diet that are less healthy.  Gluten free scones.

I'll be making these again.  

  Thinking about how to cut something is an essential part of growing and making.