But They're My Babies!

We got the shopping cart plug in working on the sea glass web site and she’s uploading photos and descriptions of her products as fast as she can.

While working on that, it hit her that these were pieces that she’s loved and toiled over and worked on by hand. These were her creations, her babies.

Instead of going to friends and people she knows, or even to people that she meets at a street fair face to face and will probably never see again, these might get sold to people she’ll never meet or know anything more than their shipping address. These precious, delicate objects of love and affection that have been made with love, are going out into the cold, hard, cruel world, all alone, and will never be seen again.

I say she should keep them all then. Oh, wait. That’s not it.

She should remember that when she makes these beautiful creations by hand, at home, with love, that she is making them so that people are happy. These objects of art will give that happiness to people. She may never know that for sure or see it in their faces, but the reason she’s making these is to make the world a better place.

You can’t make the world a better place without going out into it and being a part of it. You can’t win if you don’t play the game. A harbor is built to keep ships safe, but that’s not… blah, blah, blah. You know the cliches.

It’s great to stay home and be safe and warm, but this is about making the world a better place and that takes a bit of risk, a bit of random chance.