On Oct 25, 2005, at 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin) wrote:
Yes, one must think of it as an entertainment expense. Thousands of
dollars
for hundreds of hours of entertainment. > Devon
No, no, no! At least for me, it's therapy. It's what keeps me sane
when the world is crazy. And when a psychiatrist probably costs $75-
$150 per hour, it's a bargain!
<VBG> Years, and years ago... Before I learnt to make lace, and before
I learnt to drive a car (both of which happened around the time I was
40. There was a French writer who claimed a woman's life didn't begin
until she was 40... Can't remember his name, but he was right <g>)...
I learnt cross-stitch and needlepoint and crewel embroidery - first in
"normal scale" and then divided by 12 - years and years ago, before
lace. I was _supremely_ lucky in that the owner of the store where I
got my supplies never got tired of answering questions, however stupid
I though they might be. Indeed, her attitude was "all questions are
exciting; it's people who know everything who are boring", so I didn't
feel too constrained when asking.
So I asked, and asked, and asked... and punctuated my questions with
complaints about the cost of materials, as is my wont :) Her
end-of-the-tether response was: "it costs about $100 an hour for a
psychiatric consultation, plus gas (we had no shrinks in our little
town). A square inch of needlepoint, which also takes you about an
hour, costs what? Five buck at most?"
I never forgot it it; pragmatics will appeal to me where sentiment
doesn't, every time :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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