I am a believer in developing talents. I really love to encourage others in their creative endeavors, their strivings, their growing. So I am going to devote my Thursday posts to the talent among us. I wanted to show a picture of my friend Taryn's beautiful crochet work. She is working on some custom pillows for me right now. She is not finished yet so you will have to wait for that post until later. Still, I discovered Taryn has another talent. She is a blogger techie supreme. She just ran over here at the drop of a hat to help me figure out how to change my blog background. Apparently she has been helping people with their blogs all day. Thanks Taryn, talented crochet girl, blogger extraodinaire and willing to help friend.
I just discovered that my friend Trinity has a talent she has been hiding. I already know she is an amazing interior designer. I ask for her advice all the time. I keep waiting for her to send me a bill. She just smiles and says I can help her sometime. She is absolutely phenomenal with kids, and she is a great cook. We recently took an oil painting class together and she is amazing. Reading her blog I have discovered that she is a talented closet writer.
I could literally go on forever about all the talented people I know. Too often we as women measure ourselves against some cardboard cutout. Do we fit the mold, do we have the right skills and talents? "So and so is so much more talented than I am." We spend way too much time measuring, comparing and knocking ourselves down. I can't think of one single person I know that doesn't have a gift or talent that makes them uniquely them. If you are struggling with recognizing your talent please come see me. You see that's one of my talents; seeing the strengths of others.
I have mentioned my love of daylilies in my blog already but I want to expand on this theme a little bit. I am grateful my world is filled with so many different talented people. I love my friends who uplift me, make me laugh, stretch me, listen to me, teach me. All of the people in my life are unique. Each person carries their own talents and personality. I revel in their differences, differences that make them beautiful. I could never live with a garden that only had one color daylily. I am thankful I am surrounded by beautiful talented people who make my life colorful.
3 comments:
Gee talk about tooting my horn. Miss Writer dear, I'm sorry but I could never consider myself a good writer. English was my worst subject. It scared me to death. I have to say that it has been fun "thinking" of new things to expand on. I do enjoy that part of it. Thanks for the kind words.
Taryn IS amazing. I can't wait to see your pillows. That might not have been a good thing to put out there about her blogging wisdom. If her phone doesn't stop ringing I'm sure she'll be calling you.
Now what about all of your talents. It's easy to see one of your biggest from reading your posts, but why not a little tooting of your own horn. Next Thursday I'll be looking forward to that.
I love the new background for you blog. Very cute! Hope Tom gets home soon so you can someone to unload on. Clay leaves tomorrow for Canada and doesn't get home until Friday. So I'll be sharing your pain this week!
Fun background! That was nice of your friend to help you out. It is a bit confusing at first, but once you understand it's pretty easy. You will be a blog expert soon!
I am interested to see the pillows! You will have to post pictures when you get them.
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