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out with the old
Mar. 8th, 2010 02:37 pmToday is my fortieth birthday. I celebrated by washing my floors. I'm not very good at housekeeping, and steadily working at transforming my attitude and aptitude by learning that it is a gift to myself to make the house tidier and cleaner, less full of clutter. So my floors aren't perfectly washed, but many things in this life are worth doing imperfectly, and so I'm carrying a little less dirt into the new decade.
I also purged all the acrylic/novelty skeins from my yarn chest, and tidied it up a little. I hate knitting with acrylic, and having skeins of it just makes me feel like I should be doing something with it.
So it seems I'm starting the year with a spirit of letting go. Expectations, yarn, old habits, negative self-imaging... There's lots I'm quite happy to release from my life.
In my twenties, I worked on an undergraduate degree, came out of the closet, had two kids, got married, was baptized. I listened to Ani DiFranco and breastfed babies and read bedtime stories. I lived on low wages, or welfare. I learned to knit. I drank pints of beer in pubs where I knew the band. I planted my first gardens.
In my thirties I went to grad school, left my marriage, continued to struggle with depression. I bought three houses, left behind two gardens, lived beside the beach. I started to live part of my life online. I readjusted to being a single parent, and began to settle into my vocation.
In my forties...? I guess we'll see what comes next.
I also purged all the acrylic/novelty skeins from my yarn chest, and tidied it up a little. I hate knitting with acrylic, and having skeins of it just makes me feel like I should be doing something with it.
So it seems I'm starting the year with a spirit of letting go. Expectations, yarn, old habits, negative self-imaging... There's lots I'm quite happy to release from my life.
In my twenties, I worked on an undergraduate degree, came out of the closet, had two kids, got married, was baptized. I listened to Ani DiFranco and breastfed babies and read bedtime stories. I lived on low wages, or welfare. I learned to knit. I drank pints of beer in pubs where I knew the band. I planted my first gardens.
In my thirties I went to grad school, left my marriage, continued to struggle with depression. I bought three houses, left behind two gardens, lived beside the beach. I started to live part of my life online. I readjusted to being a single parent, and began to settle into my vocation.
In my forties...? I guess we'll see what comes next.
