Dan Action

Autumnal Hopeful September 11, 2007

I took last week off to understand more exactly which track I am on here at this time of my life. The results are in, and frankly, I feel pretty uplifted. Just to temper the mood, I speak strictly in business-only terms here. Keeping a friendship from falling apart is ferocious. That aside, I spent Labor Day weekend with my mother putting together the new team kits. In three days worth of work we were able to put together two jerseys, two skinsuits, and an extra pair of un-embroidered shorts. Just to give a little backround here, last year my Mom, a gifted seamstress, got into the idea I posed about making some jerseys for the team out of some wool. They were made and from there the concept grew. This year we could make better ones.

Sewing with my mom was really confidence boosting. Her comfort with both her studio and the machines occupying space therein rubbed off on me. She makes things seem like no big deal where I am stressing about them, that’s pretty valueable. One needs to look at these types of things as a process with no part inequal to the next; as with any process of building or construction, it helps to abstract what exactly the finished project will be and concentrate on each step to achieve it. So from fabric store to skinsuit, we made it happen. It took a lot of time and work, but it was so worth it.