business and life

i have long found it impossible to separate business and personal in my life. things, thoughts, people become permanent actors on this stage. as things get made: bags, hats, landscape designs, floral arrangements, dry floral bouquets, i send them off to their new homes with a certain sadness, there is a part of me that wants to keep in touch... not only with that, which my time, love, creativity was put into, but also with that new person who is taking it home. genuine connections are not easily made, i find, and it takes immediate recognition, effort and depth to bring them out in our daily lives, personal or business.

as always, t.Ira was my constant teacher in practicing simplicity, openness and humble concern. when it comes to her yarns especially, i want to send them to a lovely home (when i knit, i think about what she would have made with it, where it would have gone). here is a hat for her great grandson Carl, who was just born to Anton and Fleur. i thought it would be lovely for him to have something she might have made. she stopped knitting in her last years, but she kept this yarn as she kept everything else for a reason - it might be just the right thing one day. and that is what i am working on. i would like to prove her right to the last little strand.