Spiral Crone
What goes around, comes around.

There was a joke about my rubberstamping during my last siege of physical therapy. I had mentioned (apparently a bit too often) that I had a class on the 21st and could not be scheduled for an appointment on that day. Every time the schedule came up in the conversation, one of the therapists would say, "Oh, and of course we can't put you down for the 21st," with a grin.

Of course, I, ColanderBrain that I am, went to therapy on the 21st. And when they gave me a funny look and tried not to LOL, I realized what I had done. I drove on over to the rubberstamp store and admitted what I had done, complete with the story about how I kept telling them over and over again that I had a class on Wednesday.

One of the employees of the stamp store listened to me talking to another customer, and she said, "Oh, are you here for the watercolor class?" I said that I was, and she said, "Oh, no, that's *tomorrow*." I fell for it and thought "I really *AM* a ColanderBrain!" Then she started laughing, smug about having fooled me.

And the therapists laughed when they heard The Rest of The Story. They said that they were glad that I could get my Art Therapy for the day.

What they don't really understand is how true that description is.

Last week I agreed to teach a class about using polymer clay with rubberstamps. I dragged in a toaster oven, and a pasta machine, and a shoebox full of clay bricks, and another box full of stamps and goodies for "texturizing" clay. I was afraid that nobody would be interested, and I would have schlepped all that stuff into the store for nothing.

How pleased I was to see enthusiasm and creativity fuel the class and produce some wonderful items! And each of the participants made a point of stopping to tell me how much they enjoyed the class and how much they appreciated my having done it.

One very nice lady said, "Thank you for making it so easy to understand."
Um.... isn't that was teaching is *supposed* to do?

I'm motivated now to do more with polymer clay myself. And I look forward to doing another class for rubberstampers, the best support group anyone could ever have.

Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone

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