Changing the Emphasis
This week I've been thinking a lot about how changing the emphasis on what I’m doing affects the outcome. I used to weave and my husband made a beautiful vertical loom so I could make tapestries and flat rugs. I really did not have time to use it because I was running my own interior design business. I kept the loom along with some wonderful yarns because I knew someday I would have time. That loom and the yarn moved from Tucson to Prescott with me and sat in the closet for 5 years. I've done no weaving in 10 years. The emphasis was on what could have been and on a dream that was never going to happen and in fact I did not want. I sold the loom to a young woman who is collecting tools she wants to use in the future. I understood that. The yarn is now listed on my Etsy site in supplies. I had to examine what I really wanted and why before I could let go of the past. It was the same with moving from my Tucson home of 25 years. My husband died in 2002 and 4 ye