crafts

So I actually know quite a lot about hand embroidery. My mom wants me to help her make 25 Christmas presents all of which demands lots of hand embroidery. The project is a little felt prairie girl that doubles as a needle holder. These little items have been made for at least three generations by the women in my family. My mom wants to hold on to the tradition.

This means I will have to get out all my thread, clean up my house and prepare to feel cozy. Being in a cozy mood is the only way to reduce your world small enough to care about the perfection of the french knot. Right now the outdoors is still too alluring to really promote coziness. Rain and cold make coziness more accessible.

What is conziness really about? It has something to do with the private life. About turning inward. You get mindful when you focus on tying french knots. A hot cup of tea comes to mind. Working on a cozy enterprise does not take up your full attention though. The hand give the mind room to wander a bit. If you are so inclined you may ponder an old romance.

But I am not so inclined. I am trying to figure out if I have a self or am just an acumulation of experiences as Hume would suggest. Of course there has to be something to acquire experieces with in the first place. And that's what I'm looking for. A consciousness outside the body. That's what I will be wondering about as I embroider my little prairie girls.

Because that consciousness is the spiritual source of all our magnificence. We are spiritual beings having a Human experience not Humans having a spiritual experience. That's what the book said that got me started on this blog to begin with. The experience of being cozy is one which allows for getting in touch with the true self. I think that's why we like crafting so much.