Tilting at Windmills: How I Spent my Summer Afternoon

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

How I Spent my Summer Afternoon

Learned some things about my Silhouette, played with using Stampscapes and the Stamp-a-ma-jig, and all while doing my first ever SCS Sketch Challenge.

2 comments:

Etha said...: Oh what a pretty card! Did you cut that with your silhouette? get the thingie that you forgot to take for it?? love how you set the lighthouse over the designer paper and stamped it, very neat!; July 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Christi Flores said...: This is beautiful!!! I love it!; July 8, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Why "Tilting at Windmills"?

When I started this blog in October 2007, there was a story here about my connection to "Tilting With Windmills". Much of what was in that post no longer applies. Much other of it still does. So, here's the story.

When I was graduating from high school, more than 40 years ago, a group of my friend presented me with a print of Picasso's Don Quixote. They said it reminded me of them.

I get upset when things are wrong, even though getting upset cannot fix them. I dislike people who are cruel or petty or self-serving, and am frustrated that I cannot change them. I fight a daily battle with my health, although I know that every new day is another battle. I have a husband and close friends who support me, even when what I want or believe seems crazy.

So, the comparison with Don Quixote is perhaps an apt one. The story encourages me to take on the battles I see, even the hopeless ones. It reminds me to try to see the best in people. It comforts me that, in the end, even if my actions are futile, they are not meaningless.

I mean to try to continue "to dream the impossible dream".