The silence here has been no lack of ideas, drafts or edits on my textile journey but loud echo of the thud of recent accompanying health challenges which have meant any completed chapters would have had to be viewed by the proverbial blind eye. My paper copy of the first module of the C&G course is very well thumbed and annotated with doodles and scribbles galore in the margins and on the backs of pages and I find no reason to abandon ship before I have really headed in to open ocean... metaphors and medication do appear to come hand in hand:0)
In the silence there has been much thought and I have definitely decided a few false starts do not an end make however they do point to the undeniable fact that health is not something that I can either ignore nor forget to accomodate in ways that meet need not want.
So for another few months C&G course will be gently zipped into it's portfolio and will wait for new start and concious awareness of the right moment. In saying that I do know there is never a right moment there is just the moment to begin again. i certinly do not wish to approach the course as half arsed as I have thus far, it and me deserve better:0) So, I am leting it rest whilst I do too and we will meet again in a few months refreshed and renewed and ready to go - ever the optomist that's me even as I reach for pain meds or some such. Thankfully Distant Stitch and my tutor Sian Martin agree with my postponement and we will engage once again when I am ready. In the meantime I will keep a eye open for the short courses Distant Stitch is going to be offering in the coming months plus anything that is actually going to be happening locally to me which will feed in to the C&G course and other work.
One thing I am very clear about is that enrolling on the course was not a bad move, that its contents and challenges are at one with a need and that I will do this course not for a qualification or some such but for me to explore engage and embrace new understanding not only of textile skills and techniques but how to translate those in to communication with others and my self.
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