Being where you need to be right now.

Pour a cup of tea and pull up a chair.  I'm not too long winded this time, so enjoy.

A cute crocheted "thing".

Sometimes we think we know what we need, but then we are shown what we really need. 

I think it's hard to know what we really need until we try a few things and maybe fail a lot.  Or you could be one of those people that succeed at everything.  I don't think this is for people like that, but please feel free to read on.

My daughter on her small pony.  Breezie was great and is now with another family, being adored!

Sometimes you need one thing now, but you outgrow it.  I wouldn't want my daughter to try and ride her small pony when she is ready for a large horse, but when she was only 5, she didn't have the strength to control my big horses.

Drop spindles are a great start into spinning - low tech and low cost.

So, maybe now you need to be in the moment of learning knitting, then later on you might want to learn spinning.  But regardless of where you are at, you need to be focused on where you are now.  Sound simple?  Yeah, but I am always looking ahead to the next thing.  I need to ride the young horse, so he learns how to be ridden.  But I want to be galloping him down the trail at the lake, whooping and hollering like a wild thing.  Needless to say, he's not quite ready for that.  Sometimes you have to be where your companion can join you.

This is the spinning wheel I chose.  A huge step up from a spindle, but not nearly as portable.

Once a year, I go to my daughter's school and demonstrate how to make yarn.  Kids like hands on, so I take lots of different fibers and some ready made yarn.  If I have a rabbit, I take that too!  What fun!  It's a blast for me and them.  I get thank you's from boys and girls for the rest of the school year, even from kids who have seen it 2-3 times!

Once you have learned something, it often helps to teach it to someone else to help you to the next level.  It's amazing how much you learn about yourself by answering the question of "what's different about these two?" The enthusiasm of youth can be infectious if you go with it.  Let your joy fill them and their joy fill you.  Who needs drugs when you can get high on each other!?