Category: Confluences
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Vision
Is it possible for eyes to breathe a sigh of relief? It felt like mine did when I put my new glasses on! I have been feeling so tired that I’ve been trying to rule out the things that cause ‘tired’ and I was reminded my glasses were two years old. Usually that means I…
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Hurdles
One of the biggest hurdles I’ve ever faced was producing this massive missive. It went on for literally years. First I worked on obtaining the master weaver certificate from the Guild of Canadian Weavers. I thought that goal was the biggest hurdle I’d ever attempt. It was just the prelude to first writing, then illustrating…
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …
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New Blogger
Mary Lessman is a master spinner (Olds College Master Spinner program), weaver and now – as of today – a blogger. She has been toying with the idea of starting a blog for a while now and today I ‘forced’ her to sit down at my desktop and get ‘er done. Mary is also one of…
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All in the Details
Details. Lots and lots of details. I have been working on the conference. A conference is like a workshop, only on steroids. Because instead of just one person leading one event, a conference has many instructors and an order of magnitude greater of participants. So I begin, now, 18 months or so prior to the…
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Potential
Recently someone asked me when I was going to retire. I told them I am already doing what I love, why would I retire? The fact is, though, that I am seeing the effects of a lifetime of labour. No body resists repetitive motions done pretty much every day forever. So once again, with the…
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Details, Details!
Conferences. Love them or not, a lot of people are involved in the planning and execution of them. Conferences – no matter the topic – are fraught with details. Lots and lots of details. It is the managing of those details that make the experience good – or not – for the instructor, the participants…
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Relative Time
Time is relative. I am still being affected by jet lag and woke up way too early this morning at 5 am. Eventually I got up and then had an ‘early’ breakfast, which meant an ‘early’ lunch. This afternoon I have a doctor’s appointment and the day is dragging like it was crawling through molasses. …