The Lost Arts

    I was talking with a guy friend and we were talking about work, and I mentioned that I run an at home buisness. He asked me what I did and his reply was. "Oh you mean like the Lost Arts?" (I can't remeber his precies words, but that close enough.)

"Yeah those."
"Well thats cool, so do I. I am a carpenter, I carve with my hands."

   I have never thought of that as a Lost Art, but it is. You don't see many handmade things, and when you do its very rare.

Well this post is for the Lost Arts.

• Cooking
• Sewing
• Carpentry

   As you well know, I love sewing and cooking, and I post pictures and whatnot to inspire you, and to make you think I am trying to be better then you, I just I'm proud that I was able to make something and that it tunred out nice.

   If you haven't ever sewn before, do get made that your line isnt straight, and don't compare either, some people are born wih the gifts of sewing and cooking while other hafe to work harder to accomplish the same thing. And maybe the person who is sitting next you has been sewing for years.

   I was doing the dishes the other day and I was looking outside the window thinking of that what if's.

• What if we were bombed tomorrow, what Lost Arts do I have that would be handy?
• What if the people who didnt know how to cook were the first ones to die, how many peole would be left?

Now I'm not doing this to scare you, but more to get your brain working.
   When I was out a kichen for 8 months, I leaned how to cook on an open fire (its a grill) and I learned a lot. If you want to make cookies only turn one burner on and on low, then put your cookie sheet on the other side and close the lid, it works just like an oven.

    I was thinking of those who don't know how to cook, I think it woul be benafial to all to just know the basics. Like:

• How to cook an egg (Its true, some people dont know how.)
• What the difference between a watermelon and a honeydue are.
• How to make even the most basic of breads. It doesnt need to be perfect the first time. My mom has been cooking for years and she will even burn it sometimes.
• How to make a chicken and broth soup.

These are sad facts that some people don't know.

   Someone who isnt the best cook could be someone who is a born leader, and they may feel like right now isnt the time to be spending in the kitchen cooking bread, but now is the time to learn incase something happens and you need just those skills.

   Some people think cooking and sewing are hard, and yes they can be, but it doesn't have to be. Most people say they can't before they even try. They set themselves up to fail without even looking at it, or seeing if they can. Because they are sceared that they might fail.

The biggest problem with this generation is the lack of recpect and confidence. Its really sad.

"Dear God,

Please untie the knots

That are in my mind,

My heart and life.

Remove the have nots,

The cannots and the do nots.

Erase the will nots,

May nots,

Might nots that may find

A home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,

Would nots and

Should nots that obstruct mylife.

And most of all,

Dear God

I ask that you remove from my mind,

My heart, and my life all of the  "amnots"

That I have allowed to hold me back,

Especially the thought

That I am not good enough.

Amen"

I just LOVE thes poem, no idea who wrote it, but I got it in school, and I hang it on my wall to remind me of who I am.

If everyoone read this and acted on it, how many more people would we have just trying out the Lost Arts? So many poeple wont even try, if they don't try then how do they know they aren't any good?

If you are one of the people who are to scared to even just try, read this poem, and think, how much can you grow and learn by just trying?

All you have to do is try. Don't be scared, there is no point, it is just keeping you from greatness. 

 Good luck!!