Its all about the dash!

Hi, I've been doing some reading and looking at other blogs today. Its made me think about what's important to me, what I value and what makes it worth getting up in the morning (I'm so not a morning person)
I found this poem and I'm going to HAVE to buy the book, will probably end up sharing a lot more snippets from it.

                                                                 LIVE YOUR DASH

The line etched into a headstone between the dates of birth and death represents each step we take on earth and every single breath. To many, it is but a hyphen marking the time between years, but in that little dash is a lifetime of laughter, love and tears.
We each create the legacy our dash will someday represent, and decide if the life we're given is truly lived or merely spent.
Some deem themselves successful  if they can spend large amounts, but how you live your dash is all that really counts.  Because success should not be measured in what you will buy or own.  But in the pride you feel in the person you're with .... when you're all alone.
Time steals our days and hours before we recognize the theft and we live each day not knowing how much of our dash is left.
Responsibilities of daily life; the bills, the job, the cash, affect the way we choose to use the important little dash.
Life uses special moments much like a poet uses rhyme, to engrave upon our hearts and souls single, precious blocks of time.
We often overlook these gifts, thought we may not mean to do it; we walk right past a special moment, instead of walking through it.
These memories in the making are happening now and happening here, If we don't take the time, to make the time ... they quickly disappear.
To experience each moment ..... to laugh, to love, to live, to learn just how much to take from life and just how much to give.
For when our time on earth is ending we wont remember everyday, but we will recall those moments we chose to live along the way.
Consider your lifetime as a novel -- you, the sole author and creator, writing and living each chapter for those to read and cherish .... later.
Will they say you lived your dash with worry, stress and chatter, or know you seized every chance you had to make every moment matter.

Linda Ellis

I guess that's all that's consuming me at the moment, thoughts of making the most of every moment and making moments special for the people in my life. For truly living intentionally in the moment.
Well this didn't have much to do with knitting other than making me wonder why I am knitting with a colour i really don't like! But it is some of the ramblings of a knitter.

Till next time, may life be full of good wool and no dropped stitches

Where this all started

Hi, I'm really not sure who I'm writing this for? If anyone is going to read it, or if its just for me to let off steam, think out loud (which unfortunately I'm very good at) or if it will as I hope at times speak to someones heart.
I feel like I've jumped in at the deep end and not sure if I'm going to sink or swim. At the moment I'm doing a good impression of a duck, looking all cool calm and collected on the surface and paddling like crazy underneath.
For the last year or two I've been struggling with fibromyalgia and figuring out what I can and cant do. Living in cool, OK at times very chilly Tasmania, I've spent quite a lot of time knitting near the heater. About two months ago I was talking with an acquaintance about my knitting and she said they were organizing a local shopping night. It was to raise money for Ronald McDonald House in Hobart, and to showcase local homemade crafts etc, and she suggested I have a stall. So I have gone from knitting to keep occupied and my hands moving, to registering my business name, Ruby York Designs and making a website http://www.rubyyorkdesigns.com/ and a facebook page www.facebook.com/rubyyorkdesigns and now a Blog and in between all that knitting some gorgeous creations for the shopping night which was a resounding success! So I think after that first ramble I will be off to bed so that I can get back to what I truly love tomorrow ..... Knitting