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Hobbies and crafts for happiness and peace of mind
Hobbies and crafts play an important part in our lives. In these turbulent times they bring a little sanity and peace of mind into our busy lives. They centre us and give us many hours of contentment and happiness. A good hobby gives us something to escape to in the midst of tension and turmoil. It isn’t possible to over-estimate the importance of a satisfying hobby. It can even sow the seeds of a future career. But mostly, a great hobby is something that we enjoy doing. It gives us something to look forward to and gives us happiness and peace of mind.
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The Signs of Creativity
Signs of creativity are all around us – if only we can see them. The intricacy of a bird’s nest, an oyster’s pearl, the silver trail left by a snail in the grass – all these are signs of creativity. We are all involved in the act of doing and it is the evidence that we leave behind us as a result of our “doing” that is the mark of our creativity – our own works of creation. Great books, music, the pyramids, magnificent bridges and buildings – these are the hallmarks of our creativity. They are the evidence left by our lives saying; “we were here; we passed this…
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The Biggest Creative Experiment ever
Talk about craft and create! The biggest creative experiment ever attempted surely has to be the Large Hadron Collider. With its 27 kilometres of underground tunnel between Switzerland and France the Hadron Collider is like some huge monster waiting to come to life. Scientists are understandably very excited about its potential for scientific discovery. What exactly are they hoping to find? They’re hoping to find the holy grail of science that even escaped Einstein – the theory of everything. They hope to get an understanding of the link between spinning atoms and revolving galaxies. They hope to find an unseen particle called the Higgs Boson that presumably provides mass and…
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Your Craft and your Personality
Do you know that your craft or hobby says a great deal about your personality? Your craft or hobby has a special place in your life. You chose it because it’s important to you. So important, in fact, that it becomes a part of you. We all create. It’s the business of our lives. Knowingly or unconsciously, we are all in the process of crafting or creating something. Not only do we communicate our thoughts and ideas through our crafts – by expressing our creativity we also reveal our individuality. It’s obvious really. Our interests define our personalities. There are many kinds and many levels of creativity from baking a…
