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Words to live by…
One of my all time favorite Scifi and Fantasy authors Diane Duane posted this lovely mission statement on her blog:
“Just remember:
This is a dangerous time for dreams. “Vision” has become something you experience after too much dope — a subject for scorn. “Passion” and “desire” are used, nine times out of ten, as euphemisms for lust. It isn’t fashionable to confess powerful desires and then work for their achievement: you risk the derision of those who cannot admit to desire, and the envy of those afraid to have any. Their anger will seduce you into silence, inaction, passive acceptance of what seems unalterable…if you let it.
Dare the dangerous, the ridiculous, the impossible. Find out what you’re for, and get busy being that. “Whatsoever your hands find to do, do it with all your might — for the night cometh, in which no man can work.”
Admit to great desires. Work as if for mighty purposes. You have nothing to lose but the illusion that you make no difference in the world.
Love as if you may some day die suddenly. You will.
Share your joy.
It is better to freelance in Hell than to staffwrite in Heaven.”
She’s a great writer and this statement sums up how I’ve been feeling lately. We can’t win them all, we’re not getting rich running an indie business, but we’re trying to do something that brings meaning to our lives and helps people to find their passions. So yeah….THANK YOU for hanging in there with us! The shop is about to turn 1 year old…and with that, we hope more ideas, more fiber friends and creative adventures into 2010.
Happy Crafting, Jamie
Thanks for this…it’s just the thing I’ve been needing to read!
Thanks Katie! It’s a great quote and one that can apply to so many of us. We’re all looking to live meaningful lives….for some of us that involves spinning! spin baby spin!