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December 30, 2023
Winter is this wonderful time of year that allows us to stop and in the simple time, with very little daylight, take stock of ourselves. I love this time of year, to look back at what we've done, appreciate our successes and remember the lessons learned from our failures.
Everything in life has a season and sometimes we humans forget that we're part of that world that participates in the seasons. Sometimes, I think we think we're above all that seasonal nonsense. The truth is that we're not, and when we get away from it, we suffer. The part I notice the most when I get away from the resting part of winter, is that my creative tank dries up. The juices it takes to run my creative engine dry up and I need to restock those
tanks. Unfortunately I can whisk by the ole gas station and fill 'er up, like I fill my car with gas. It's more complicated than that.
That old creative muse needs rest and downtime. Sometimes, we need to schedule that in after a particularly busy time, but there's no better time that right after all the rush up to the holidays, and then we have a chance to slow way down. The week between Christmas and New Years is a great start for that.
Just like the farmers are busy during the spring planting and watering and fussing over their plants and their crops, and then in the summer more watering and more fussing over the machinery and the irrigation systems and keeping them in good working order.
Then in the fall the business time - all the harvesters have to be working, including the human ones! There's time for a short lunch in the field while the harvesting is going on. They have a few days when the weather is good, before a storm comes and drives all the crops into the ground, or the ground is so wet that the machinery gets stuck in the mud or a wind storm comes up and blows all the crops away. If they are fast and just the right time, then they can cut it
all and take it to the silo.
Once that is all done, they wait for a little rain, and then plant the winter wheat. This is the hard wheat, but it needs to come up a little - like a velvet fuzz on the black earth. Once it comes up it can survive a cold, cold freeze, and ready to be harvested in the late spring, when they plant the wheat again.
But what happens during that time when the first freeze happens and they harvest the wheat? Mostly they take stock of their machines and their equipment. They make sure it's all working. They check out their irrigation system to make sure it's working.
And then they rest. Starting in the middle of December to the end of February - they take care of their equipment and they look at what they've done for the year, what profit or not profit of what they've made. They look at their fertilizer and other expenses. They look at their equipment fuel costs and cost of running the irrigation equipment. They check it all out to see how they did for the end of the year.
Being in tune with the seasons, especially as they roll around, is the natural way to take our lives.
This time of year is a great time to look at what you've done in sewing for the year. It's also a great time to think about what you would like to accomplish for the upcoming year (if you have some ideas - I would love to hear them!) More than anything, it's a time to rest and fill up our creative juices so that we can start up with the spring all refreshed and with excitement about everything coming up from the ground again.
But without that winter peace and solace, it's hard to start up getting excited about the spring.
Enjoy a prosperous New Year and have a peaceful time this winter period before Epiphany to fill up your creative juices!
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