Savor, Smile And Focus And Craft Your Life

Craft your life like you are sewing a quilt or making a dress from material you saw in a sewing store. A lady who I gave a broken, expensive Lladro piece of excellent china told me she is a conservator of broken art pieces and she will patch it up and no one will know the difference.Also an expensive hanging light fixture was transported to another place and she said she could patch that up too. She said she also patches and restores for the Smithsonian and other famous museums broken art pieces. She said that I am a conservator of words, she has read some of my articles and one of them, I mentioned her fabulous work of restoring statues.

Find heroes and be a hero. It is easy to find someone who you would like to be like. This person has done something good for mankind and may not be well known. I would not say an actress or actor would be my choice of a hero. Young people probably would list the actor as their hero. Others would think a sports person would be their hero. When I was young, I thought my dad and my brother were the smartest people I knew then. We were brought up to revere smart and intelligent people, not necessarily rich people, but people who used their brain to get to where they wanted to be.

Also to savor life’s simplest things. This would be I guess to love a rainbow, a sunny day, the beach, a baby smiling at you and especially, if it is your baby or grandchild. I was in the doctor’s office and when I came out to the waiting room, there was this gorgeous blond haired little boy. I guessed his age as five, he told me he was three and a half and his name was Ethan. Of course, this is why he was so handsome; he had the same name as my grandson.

Another item on the list was to see the work you do, no matter what it is, that it is a craft. This is a nice thought and so I do that. My work now is writing articles for various online sites. Yes, to me that is a craft .

I heard someone on TV in a story I was watching say “I am focusing on what I have and not on what I may have lost. I am a rich lady.”

So to sum up these lines on a list, I say, Savor life’s simplest things and remember that you are a crafts person because you are a keeper, a conservator in whatever you do. Find a hero to emulate and someone will find you, to do the same and focus on what you have, not what you may have lost along the way, that probably was not that important and the last one was to sometimes, smile at a stranger and see if he or she smiles back. Either way, you have smiled and this is good for your mind and soul.

Savor, smile, focus, be proud of your craft and become a hero to yourself.

The word list means an inventory. Take an inventory of your life and you will be surprised at all of the really nice things you have accomplished so far.