Skills

This is a picture of my adorable child. This is a picture of my adorable child wearing a sweater that was a gift from his great-grandmother. That was actually knitted by his great-grandmother.

For all of my education and experience, I have very few actual life skills (other than cooking) and you know what? I feel somewhat lacking in this regard. I'm sure that this is a spin off of "the grass is always greener" thing, but I've always craved a simpler life. I think that's primarily why we moved to a small town in North Carolina instead of to a major city. Things just move slower here.

I would love to learn how to can foods from the harvest and knit and sew my own clothes. I'm not sure if this is just a romanticization (is that even a word?) of what I think a simple life would be like, but regardless, I think it would be pretty cool (and fulfilling) to eat food that you've either grown or caught yourself.

The problem is that I currently don't have time to learn and I hate that. Perhaps when arthritis prevents me from running or when my child is grown I can pick up some of these arts, but for the next decade or two, my road has been set. Not that I'm complaining mind you, its just that life doesn't seem quite long enough to squeeze everything in. If only we didn't need sleep at all....