...yes, with a spinning wheel, that colonial-era wooden thing that spins flax into gold.
...yes, I transform wool from a sheep into yarn.
...yes, yarn, the stuff you knit hats and scarves with.
I am a spinner who doctors...
...yes, a healer who took the Hippocratic Oath.
...yes, a pediatrician charged and entrusted with the health and well-being of young people.
...yes, it is at times the stuff of life and death.
I've always found it troublesome to blend these seemingly separate lives of mine, maintaining a split multiple personality of sorts. The doctor personality would be concerned with science/medicine/growth charts/appointments; later, as in the case of Jekyll and Hyde, the spinner personality would pursue wool breeds/yarn gauge/plying/doll hair... and art.For years, those two distinct personas lived within me side-by-side, coexisting peacefully, the one barely aware of the other. Until my close friend Natalie led me to the epiphany that not only was that boundary unnecessary, it was not even there. That the personality traits which I regularly apply to my practice of medicine (study, diligence, ethics, personal care), were also responsible for my successful study and execution of spin technique and the diligence with which I run my Etsy fiber art business.
Think about this, if you feel like a divided person in your daily life: whether knitter-CEO; artist-police officer; dancer-physician... you are the sum of all your talents and experience, which flow into everything you do and everyone you touch. The sooner you embrace it all, the more complete you will feel.
Laura: Rainbow Twist Shop on Etsy
