Dear Friends of The Blue Purl,
We miss the bustle in the shop, the tables filled with everyone huddled shoulder to shoulder for classes. We miss the sound of your laughter, your occasional frustrations.
We suspect you do, too.
And yet, when we step outside of our own existence, when we reach beyond ourselves to see the beauty of nature, we know there is more to the moment. It is hard to see beyond our own experience, because it is our experience. But we can, we should, and we do. That is why we share this poem by Mary Oliver. It is a tonic for the moment, to smooth out the edges and remind us there is beauty all around.
“I Go Down To The Shore
I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.”
We know you, as creators who can look at a skein and see possibility, we know that you know this, in your hearts. That all around us is possibility, even now, when the defining event of our time seems to do just the opposite, to limit what we can do.
We are living this too, and what keeps us going, day in and day out, is you. That is what has inspired us to reinvent The Blue Purl. We all hope that someday soon life feels like it once did. But we are not waiting. We give zoom classes. We run sidewalk sales. We rearranged and redesigned the shop.
This "Rumi-esque" Mary Oliver poem is probably a meme by now. It pops up now and then and depending when, speaks to different things. To us, today, it gives direction, to look beyond the limited lens of the moment, of our own lives. Think big. Dream big. Even in a pandemic, anything is possible.
Together.
connect + create
Patty, Wendy & TBP Team
