I’d like to learn how to make whiskey
and play the fiddle
and how to sew quilts.
At a certain point in life it seems we give up on some desires, the big, far-away lofty ones, and a few small, close, dear ones. We accept the idea that we needed to learn how to do it when we were young, and a small measure of defeat sets in and reincarnates itself as hopes for our children.
But I still want to learn how to speak Spanish, and French, too.
I’d like to learn how to ride a horse, and then have one of my own someday to ride along the logging roads in the forest that stretches out and rises up from this hillside pasture.
Learning doesn’t have to stop. Childhood wonder doesn’t have to fade away.
We wake up everyday and we can open our eyes to possibilities, because that’s what each new day is: a possibility.
I don’t know what I’ll approach first, the whiskey or the quilting, the horse-back riding or the fiddle. I just know that it’s not impossible. All it takes is two hands, an open mind, and the courage to try.
A wonderful post… an if we lived closer, I would teach you how to quilt an how to speak french! 🙂 Distance is so frustrating sometimes…
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those “an” should be “and”… some keys need to be pressed a bit harder these days. A certain toddler has taken to pounding on my keyboard!
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Thank you! The thought is extra encouragement 🙂 Our keyboard is taking some similar pounding these days…
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Perhaps we should start a Central VT Quilting club for beginners? I’d love to learn as well!
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Yes! I love this idea!
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Hi Katie,
This is a perfect post to read today, as someone who started a (as yet unpublished) blog this morning and is summoning “the courage to try” a flower farm! Thanks for the inspiration. And, I would love to talk quilting with you whenever you want 🙂 Katie L.
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Yay! Congratulations, Katie! And what a lovely name for your flower farm 🙂 It sounds like Delia is in for quilting, too, and it would be so fun to start a quilting circle! Hope you are well~
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Nice post. I vote for horseback riding! 🙂
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