Poetry and Tatting

from the book
TatWitt: What I Learned When I Learned to Tat

Tatting is a tactile process, but mysteriously it releases the mind with its rhythm. Its cadence soothes so well that thoughts tend to meander through problem paths. Worries unweave and solutions slither in. The mind miraculously creates a void allowing resolutions to be released and clarity fills the inane. Never before had the written word been so thoroughly appreciated. Somehow ideas coalesce into verse,prose translates itself into poetry. Blessed fingers tend to tat and now to write.

What I learned was that there is poetry in the patterns that we use because they were created in someone's heart. I learned what beauty can be captured in the treasures that we make and in the words that others or we write. Through all of this the heart can become receptive to so many new ideas and different joys that had previously gone unheeded.