{"id":10310,"date":"2021-03-04T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:03:31","slug":"sheila-hicks-on-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/sheila-hicks-on-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Hicks on making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Do you cook?” she asked me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No,”\u009d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Do you garden?”\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Do you sew?”\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No.” I blushed, unsure how to justify myself and suddenly reconsidering my life choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well, you see,”\u009d Hicks said, “all that’s gone.”\u009d And with those three simple questions, she appeared satisfied. According to Hicks, living an honest, mindful life requires a devotion to making; and by deprioritizing such “slow” skills, we lose opportunities for richness and beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alina Cohen in conversation with Sheila Hicks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Do you cook?” she asked me. “No,”\u009d I said. “Do you garden?”\u009d “No.” “Do you sew?”\u009d “No.” I blushed, unsure how to justify myself and suddenly reconsidering my life choices. “Well, you see,”\u009d Hicks...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13726,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions\/13726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}