you should have your own website

One of the people I see at work, sometimes, is very talented with style and fashion and accessories. She has a real flair; so when she came into the building today I mentioned to her, "You should have your own web-site! All about fashion and style and beauty, you could put pictures, & talk about different ideas -- write about them..."

She looked up at me, politely feigning interest.
"Oh -- uh-huh? But --
I wouldn't have the time, I have a little one."

She has family, home, and a job: her "plate" is full.

And -- just because a person is good at something, themselves, doesn't mean they want to "proselytize" about it to other people, so to speak.

Some people want to do, and teach, or share.
Others want to just -- do.

She's kind of like someone else whom I've known a long time, a friend who is really good at a lot of things -- drawing and painting and art and cooking and baking and decorating and gardening and sewing and quilting and photography and even fixing things. (Holy Toledo, once I started that sentence, almost thought could never escape it! This person does a lot of things, no kidding!)

People who have been guests in her home so commonly compare her to Martha Stewart. And there is always someone or other telling her, "You should start your own business!" (Think at times she may feel a tad harangued by the "you-should-start-your-own-business" chorus and refrain....I try to restrain myself, now, from saying it to her -- and just say, "That is very beautiful." Or, "This is delicious."

She doesn't want to convert the rest of the world to her way of doing things, or teach them all, or seek fame.

What she wants to do, is to -- do -- the thing.
It's a very pure experience, I think, (like a sandwich with only one thing on it -- roast beef, or cheese. Just one thing besides the mayo or honey mustard)....

A person has only so much time, and if we live in line with the personal priorities which are closest to our own hearts & uppermost in our minds, then we cannot all "start businesses," or, have a magazine, or be on TV, or "take over the internet." ("Hi -- yaaghh!")

Now -- Martha Stewart -- no one knows if she really tests all the recipes she prints or discusses, but -- she is one who could "take over the internet" if she was of a mind to do so. (Has anyone considered what would happen if Martha Stewart was put in charge of the State Department? She'd get those middle eastern jihadists makin' doilies and shut 'em all up. ...)

Like where it says in Isaiah, "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares..." the middle eastern radicals could "beat their bombs into doilies..." or --something...

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