As I sorted out
the washing this morning I had the radio on, Radio 4. It was Maureen Lipman
talking on “Saturday Live”. During the conversation she commented that she enjoyed
drawing/ painting as a pastime. She went on to say she regarded it as a form of
meditation, an activity in which she could absorb herself so fully that she could
escape from her everyday worries & concerns & when she returned to the
real world she could look at it with fresh eyes & from a better
perspective.
I couldn’t help
thinking that is what jigsaws are for me. I know they have no vital import. It
isn’t essential they are completed. But while I am doing them, I am in a world
in which shape & order can be put - not always so in real life – a world in
which time passes quickly as I am so absorbed, another world in which I can
maybe gain some understanding, some better perspective, of the real world in which
I live the rest of the time.
And I can't help feeling glad I've had the jigsaws these last few weeks of chaos, noise & disturbance. They've helped me keep my sanity!
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