"I always worry about the modern trend of making lace fillowing route map charts...A true lacemaker is able to 'read a pricking'...interpret what to do by looking at...(relationship)...pinholes..." Alex
*** "people learn through different means...would think that it would attract the same type of person but it simply doesn't...VARK (Visual, Auditory, wRitten/Reading and Kinestic) and and Honey Mumford's learning models (Activists, Pragmatists, Theorists and Reflectors....etc." Liz *** Thank you for sharing these comments, as there are some of us who learned to read upside down and from right to left, just for brain exercise. I would write my children's names upside down when I sat across the table so it looked right to them, then when an adult would ask them to spell their name, they would repeat the procedure and the person would be amazed. They didn't know that this was something unusual or exceptional and I just wanted them to see things in an unlimited way. When doing something, I envision what would be the various and best ways to execute the task (much like they teach Chicago math in schools today, ie: How many different ways can you think of and use to solve this problem?), and ask people how they think things can be done, which facilitates not only creativity, but ideas that transcend what has become rote. If you ask a child how they think something should be done, it becomes a profound experience and sometimes things are not yet thought of. When teaching, I see how differently people learn and since most people are visual, analogies or metaphors help when graphics aren't available. I have a sister who is a successful artist, yet when I explained to her how to do a 3D thing, she had become too used to working within a 2D reality trying to create a 3D effect to really get what I was saying, until I gave the instructions several different ways. With another sister who also does a lot of presentations, we talk "types" (as Liz shared) often, as it helps to engage their perspectives and processing and to enhance communication and understanding. Not everyone has the ability to see what something will look like before it is done, and know what it takes to create the steps. Beginning the process in understanding what is happening and the goal, helps engage new techniques to employ and much more thrill in the process. We get conditioned to do things in a habitual way, yet we now know that brain exercise suggests we approach things in different ways or perspectives. Even using a different hand than usual triggers enhanced brain activity, and staves off repetitive movement stress injuries. Easy to fall into that first brain fissure for that activity. I was told I couldn't teach myself lace and needed an instructor, but that has been far from the truth. A book helps, no doubt, but it is mostly about our belief that we are limited beings when we really are not. Lace is a good example, as so many techniques evolved over time and distance. Bobbin and needle lace are great mergers of right and left brain hemispheres and if one is dominate in one, lace provides the opportunity to enhance use of the other. Lace is the hallmark of innovation. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
