Day Sixteen: Connect To Creating Something

When I was in college, I often worked myself to the bone, coming out of a semester exhausted, having eaten too many microwave meals and not getting outside nearly enough. I remember looking around at the wreckage of my dorm room after my last final and thinking, All that work, and nothing really to show for it. I know now that I was moving toward a better future but it was hard to put in hour after hour of studying and not be able to see any tangible results.

So I started an informal tradition of making something the first week I was on break. One year I learned how to sew some skirts, another I learned to knit, others I baked or drew or planted. It gave me a chance to look at my creation and feel proud of that one little thing.

I’m falling back on my old habits. The girls and I have been making hand knitted blankets (literally, using just your hands) to help us pass the time and give us some sense of accomplishment. Rowan and Forrest build a puppet theater from some old boxes so she could give us a puppet show. (Featuring, oddly, a mother who keeps yelling at the kids and dogs to be quiet…not sure who she could be talking about…) We’ve been baking up a storm and enjoying our creations very much.

Connect today to what you can create with this time. What can you make that will last?