I wanted to talk skills today because I had another one of those conversations over the weekend where someone told me a story about how they had once tried to make a thing - but that that thing had not worked. That it was wonky and a little lopsided. They used this thing as evidence of their personal lack of capacity. That they couldn’t do this particular kind of making.

I tried, over the bubbles in my hand and the music in the room, to suggest that their story about their capacity was untrue. That their story was limited by what they were being told - by what our culture tells us - it takes to make something beautiful.

The idea that they weren’t capable of anything more than a lopsided piece of knitting is simply untrue. They have the capacity, given the right circumstances, to learn to knit.

Cause making is skills. Just skills. And we have all learnt so very many skills in our lifetimes.