I have a tendency to over-think everything. When it comes to making things I often spend more time in my head than I do with my hands. Even with easy stuff. Like the sweater that the wee one has been wearing in pieces lately because she's excited about it; meanwhile her mama can only think about actually stitching the sleeves to the body. And there are those two simple holiday gifts I'm working on (still all in my head, mind you) for nana and great nana, which will undoubtedly be delivered into their hands well into next week. And the solstice cards. These are finally on paper thanks tonight's intensive gocco session, but they've morphed into a new year's greeting.
I'm thinking seriously about resolving in the new year to not let things get stuck in the gray matter, but instead to make a practice of getting them out, of making them real. I'm wondering if getting back to Julia Cameron's morning pages would help. Or maybe making a trusty little notebook a constant companion, into which I could jot ideas and notions into as they came to me. Of course I'm all still completely in my head about how to get out... So the question for you, friends, is do you have a practice that keeps you moving from the mental to the physical realm, that helps you kick-start your ideas and bring them to fruition?
