Another word to write about (about which to write)….I may be catching up, but I may also be losing it!!
Adjustments….let me count the ways. How many times in a day, an hour, even a minute, do we make adjustments? Smooth the hair, settle the jacket, sniff, blink….. It’s those unconscious movements or moments that strengthen us to face the world…..
……Where we adjust to a constantly changing environment – new medications, new hips, new knees, new places to live, new friends, new losses….
All this, while the world adjusts on a grander scale…icebergs melt, weep, perhaps, species die, climates roil! The list goes on.
It becomes too much at times – “Stop the world. I want to get off.” It’s the title of an old musical, I saw once and I’ve never forgotten.
We need escapes. Can we escape with or into Art? For the moment, we can still escape into nature, on a good day, if a tree, or something green isn’t too far away. We can escape into a book – a form of Art, to be sure. A lot of the people, I know, escape into knitting, it’s a handicraft and in it’s highest form it is design and fibre Art.
Some people escape into hobbies. My husband has taken up cooking – this is a dangerous hobby 🙂 My daughter curls twice a week. My sister does Ancestry.com and my youngest “games.” They stop the world for moments to adjust the salt in a recipe, sweep the rock, read the obit, shoot the evil overlord.
The pictures? My son’s art in a new gallery in Calgary. He stops the world with paint and canvas. Can you guess my favourite?
Have an adjusted day!!