Timing and the creative act

Several months ago I made a hat for Diane. Usually I am right on the mark, but that one just wasn't a good fit. We talked about me doing another at some other time. And then, last month we were traveling together, in a group, by bus, through Turkey. It was somewhere between Istanbul and Cappadocia that I made another hat. While I was crocheting, stitch by stitch, it occurred to me that this one "had her name on it". When I showed it to her, I asked, is this your hat? I realized that timing is a big part of the creative act-in art as well as life.

Diane is a children's author-illustrator, photographer and counselor based in Grand Junction, Colorado

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