Howdy howdy howdy! It’s still January and it’s getting ready to be all snowy and icy here. Whee. . . It’s just my favorite. . . You know I’d much rather be scraping snow off my car in the extreme wind than say, sitting on the dock at the lake with a book and iced coffee eagerly awaiting a boat ride later in the afternoon.

Anyhoo, so recently I’ve been thinking a lot about knowledge and how much I know and how much I don’t know and such and such. I tend to go down the rabbit hole of thinking about how many topics and concepts and etc that I don’t know about or don’t know enough about and then just start wallowing in my thoughts. Which got me thinking. . .

It really isn’t about how much you know, but what you do with the knowledge you do have. I have been trying to focus on what I do know and what I can accomplish with that knowledge, rather than getting discouraged by thinking about all the things I don’t know enough about. With the knowledge I do have, I can do a ton of stuff. And the more I do with what I have, the more potential I have to learn new things. For example, I know how to knit. I’d like to knit something new sometime soon (I want to make some cute mittens or maybe a sweater). I’d really like to have it be in a fair aisle pattern, but I’ve never attempted such a thing. Instead of me getting discouraged, I’m going to just pick a project and start it.

I’m not going to become an expert overnight in some subject, but I do know that I can learn new things every day. And all these new little tidbits of learning add up over time.

-Rachel