Even after practically starting fresh with Pinterest, musings & mantras is still the third biggest board on my account. My attitude towards quotations is that someone wiser and wittier than I has probably already voiced my thoughts more eloquently than I ever could, but that, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates." So I won't stop gathering my favorite aphorisms, but sometimes - just sometimes - it's wonderful to be encouraged to clear our heads and find our own words.
After I finished a needlepoint project last winter, Jon gave me a piece of cross stitch fabric, a wooden hoop, and a book of patterns for Valentine's Day. I sketched out an elaborate border with a romantic saying in the frame, but was never really enthusiastic about working on it. (It's still not even close to being done.) When Kate declared her creative cleanse this week, I knew it was my cue to go back to basics.
