How it might happen.
That is the useful approach for me. What, not so much Why.
Why , in the end seems more like opinion. How, observation. Both can provide story.
Story has many forms. It's hard to tell a story with out using the word because.
I noticed a small scrap with a bit of seeming, cut from something else as I recall. On the floor. I noticed there was a space up top on this one. I tried. It fit. I remembered Galaxy from yesterday. I added a lot yesterday. I did that without thinking much. Just tried this and that. I looked, tried to catch my thoughts. This is all I caught.
I love your dangling threads, Jude, and their multi colors! Very intriguing and draws my eyes to them. Am enjoying their differences, the ways they are on the art piece, the ways they fall, or have been placed. All the different HOW of them.
That they might become stronger in their layering, I love that.
How = Progress
Why = Karma
Little raindrops for the tree
I don’t know
Maybe How = Change, progress seems more like a judgement
Why = Reason, and it always seems caught/limited by what we think we know or believe. And often takes the form of a story that makes us more comfortable with change.
That was a mind full, eek…
That scrap adds so much, Jude. My zen teacher was all about questioning, but she would not entertain “why”
questions. I think they led to endless thinking. I’m lying around with covid today, really appreciating your site, videos, etc, all the lovely sharing that you’ve put out there for us.
It that liquid puzzle that always brings solutions. So sorry about the covid thing, just went and got the new Vax, so many sick around here…
Gosh this is a pretty scrap tree!
I’m reminded of this quote while considering the differences or How? and Why?
Is there moments for each one to rise up and be just what is needed?
What a great morning mental exercise 🙂
“I Keep Six Honest Serving Men …”
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men.
But different folk have different views;
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends’em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child
Oh, I know this one!
Ha, good one!
Because I want to is how I feel about making quilts 😁
We can tell!
I would love to see your quilts! How do I find you?
I put her link in the September newsletter… but here it is again. I will add it to the ragmates page.
https://www.instagram.com/p.b.sorrells2018/
Ah, yes now I remember Pam’s beautiful work!! So amazing.
Why implies that there has to be an answer for me…that might be shaped by so many years of children asking “why” though. 🙂 How maybe more process? Interesting thing to think about.
Because, just because was a common answer. Why can be answered by how I think, so it is all how it gets woven together. It is interesting.
Trees … can’t have too many.😊 And a basket of good questions is also very useful.
I’d like stitch that.
And How sometimes it’s nothing…
At least no reason.
Thank you, thank you for pointing out the profound difference between asking a question that begins with How or with Why! I hadn’t really thought about that. I think it is shaking something loose in me & will get me past this stuck-point in my current project. In fact, whether in our making or in our approaches to the current crises in the world, How seems like a good place to begin. Sending you love & gratitude for your words & your beautiful meaningful work.
It has always freed me, backing away from why. Taken me down from the podium and let my thoughts flow. Become.