The Internet is the largest gathering place for humans on the planet. It's hard to quantify sometimes; I need to study culture more in general, how cultures evolve through time in language, mythology, etiquette, art, etc. I would like to go back to school at some point. I know I want to study Anthropology, Archaeology, possibly Sociology. I mean, I guess they all go together. You can tell probably I am less enthused about the last one. I just know I have got to get out of custodial. My adult child commented the other day that they feel custodial is killing me. I get sick more often, and it lasts longer. I think it was working in a hospital during the pandemic, plus the pandemic itself, and all the wildfires we had here that got really close to some friends of mine, turned the sky and sun a raging shade of orange, and destroyed a town. I awoke to my plants in my flowerbox covered in ashes. I don't even know all the ways that changed me, who I even was before. Certainly, not con...
About me: Name: Aaron Age: 43 (The older I get, the less I care to share many things about me online, though know this: I am a pro democracy, anti-racist leftist - it feels important to share that, especially these days, with the insanity that the "Religious Right" has plunged our world into) and I quilt! I dabble in other crafts but my love for quilting has endured. I learned to quilt 16 years ago and since then have made ... not very many. Life stressors getting me down. Then, instead of leaning into creating, I push it away, waiting for a time when things will settle down so I can focus. But, not creating stresses me out so it just snowballs. Enough about stress. I started this blog as a way to hold myself accountable to my creative goals. I have so many quilt ideas and they just keep coming! Whenever I get down on myself and wonder if I can even call myself a quilter anymore when I have not finished a quilt since 2021, another burst of inspiration hits. I have quilt bra...