In the long, long ago in Miss Eagle's girlhood, little Miss Eagle was searching for something in the big reclining Ottoman where her mother stored all sorts of stuff. Little Miss Eagle discovered a UFO: a beautiful linen supper cloth which her mother had worked beautifully many years before but had not completed. Litt Miss Eagle asked her mother why she had not completed it because she did such beautiful embroidery. LME's mother said "I would rather spend the time making a dress. You can wear it". This became a saying in Miss Eagle's family as a criterion of practicability and workability. "Can your wear it?"
Solutions to problems and political policies would be judged by the same yardstick...but can you wear it!
Postscript: If you, dear Reader, have a similar story of family comments turning into family wisdom, please share.
4 comments:
I have always wondered who 'they' were. they said this or they said that would happen ... I heard it when I was a child. and another - don't care was made care. I would be over the moon if someone would or could explain that to me.
Ms Robyn, Miss Eagle doesn't know who 'they' is/are either. She does know her mother used to pull her hair out with "..but Sister said." Yes Miss Eagle, is the product of the Sisters of Mercy and an Aussie Irish-Catholic education.
Miss Eagle, I have a cupboard full of other people's UFOs (we won't go into my own..), and as I add each new find to my collection, I wonder about the person who started stitching the item, but never to finish it. Maybe like my MIL, they started working on their glory box, but after they got married and had babies, there just wasn't enough time. Or perhaps they were started by someone who would have finished them, but died suddenly. Or maybe, like me - they just had to have everything they saw in the shops, and when they realised they would never have the time to finish everything, hoped to rediscover the UFOs in their next six incarnations!
Gina, Miss Eagle has a UFO - one that belonged to her Mum. When her mother died 14 years ago she was in the middle of doing an afghan rug for her youngest grandson. His mother wasn't going to do it, so Miss E volunteered - and guess what? Its UFO status remains unaltered and grandson is 28 years old. Don't know that he would still be interested in a crocheted afghan rung - but Miss E now lives in the cooler climes of Melbourne and winter is drawing in. Miss E is at least starting to think that maybe she should give it a go - and most of the credit will have to go to all you craft blogging gals who make Miss E feel so lazy and clumsy.
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