Perspective

Recently the company I work for was purchased and it has been slightly organized chaos bringing everything together. Merging two systems is already hard, but slogging through onboarding for product you won’t sell has been mind numbing. Couple that with a world wide team, and no clear direction and my anxiety has been climbing the walls.

I’ve been trying to walk more to help ease some of the anxiety, some of the unease, but the outdoors can only do so much. Lou and I have been playing which is also helpful, but he doesn’t always understand playing any more gentle than he already is. So I’ve been starting new blanket projects. Apparently life isn’t complete if I’m not in the middle of at least two different afghans. Of course one of the colors I’ve been using was discontinued so I had to pivot. I like the direction, but honestly, it’s a blanket. For me it isn’t a word of art. It is something to use and to keep you warm when it is chilly. I’m lucky I have enough to keep me warm in the winter.

And yet I continue to make more! The process is somewhat therapeutic. It pulls me out of my head and I can let my subconscious try and work out a plan to keep all of us moving in one direction. Just so long as I don’t run out of yarn…