Posted by Racer on March 19, 2006, at 1:01:49
In reply to Re: Aren't your enthusiasms really, posted by Dinah on March 18, 2006, at 22:02:11
> What gets me is the waxing and waning of interest in them. How can I be all batty about something, then poof, not give a darn?
>
>This just flashed for me:
"A Saturday Life," by Radclyffe Hall.
The Saturday Life is a concept she apparently lifted from Hinduism, which basically says that after you've learnt what you needed to learn through your past lives, you live your Saturday Life -- a sort of review, in which you move through all those stages again, before you move on to Nirvana.
So, maybe that's it. Maybe you've learnt what you were meant to learn. Maybe you'll be moving on to Nirvana, and are just reviewing your past lives now?
And when you get out that serger, give me a call. :-)
And I don't know why, but I do the same thing: I'll be all gung ho about something, then put it down for ages. While there's more to it than just the usual cycle, I have a cross stitch piece I haven't worked on for a decade now. (Although that's partly that it's hard, because it's on linen, rather than Aida cloth, and partly because I can't see the dang thing! My eyesight is not nearly as good as it was a few years back -- and it wasn't that good then, either... And one of my little rigidities is that I really can't start something new until I finish the old. That only sounds like a good thing... In practice, it means that I have to start a new type of project, when I bog down. Maybe that's part of my cycle? But I don't think it is. I think it's just a cycle of interest...)
Hey, Dinah, want a sock monkey? Made a ton of them for Christmas one year... Got two left, half done... lol
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