i am never "stuck" for ideas about what to knit, whether it be from a pattern from a book or something i'm just going to make up on my own. but i must say, lately, i have more ideas than usual. i thought it had something to do with the yarn moratorium, and maybe it does.
but i've also been writing like crazy -- absolutely crazy. i have filled a mead college-rule notebook with longhand this summer (an alarming amount of that having been written in various cosi/xando coffee-and-sandwich shops around center city -- their crumb cake is now officially a trigger mechanism for writing). i have also rewritten stories that have been lying around for some time (it is no unusual circumstance for me to make scrapple of a story for five years before seeing it placed) and i have exhausted, i feel certain, my store of "first readers" this summer -- even they have tired eyes (which is a shame since i just got the galley proof for the anthology story and really have no one to proof it. i can't. even if i read it upside down i probably couldn't proof it at this point.)
somebody -- and i wish i could remember who, since i've been really bad with my long-distance e-mail friends lately, just sending rather short messages complaining about my eyestrain -- suggested that little amber was the source of all this new creativity. well, the dates certainly line up. it's very possible!
this week, i suggested the same theory to little amber's creator, beth robinson.
Amber, that is so fascinating. I do believe that creativity breeds
creativity and it can spread like wildfire if given the right environment!
You gave it to me to begin with and I gave it back to you. Now that's a
wonderful exchange.
There is an artist in Miami that is completely fascinated with your doll.
He's a good guy, a customer of mine, and he's mentioned your doll on a few
occasions via email. I think he may be salivating with creative juice from
it as well - he was so touched that such deeply personal items could be
brought together in an art form like that. He said it made him think
differently about the work he was doing. Wildfire!
this is an example, to me, of what it is to be living an ideal.
ADDENDUM: this very day, syndicated sex columnist dan savage emphatically endorses "brechtian punk cabaret" act the dresden dolls, who use beth robinson's dolls in the video for their song "perfect fit". synchronicity!