Impale

 

Heidi the Librarian and Constance Heidi’s Daughter came to the house on Saturday evening. 

 

They wanted to make some tin art and play Word On The Street. 

 

We currently have an abundance of tins. 

 

Even so, finding the right tin can be a challenge—especially when looking for a specific color.

 

It just so happened that both Heidi and Constance were looking for blues, purples, and teals, the latter of which is hot commodity. 

 

They found some tins they thought they might use, so I deconstructed them and prepared them for use. 

 

The tins were large, hefty tins that were hard to lay to the side. 

 

I cut one into smaller pieces because the characters were all from Nemo, but

I left the other as one large sheet of metal because small divisions were less easily made. 

 

While Heidi and Constance worked, I cleaned the studio a bit and pondered what I would make.

 

I finally decided that I would use the Nemo characters to make some simple collages, 

one  of which needed the background from the tin that I had left as a large sheet of metal. 

 

So I trimmed the large sheet, kept what I needed, and then lay the rest—still larger than regular sized tin—on the floor. 

 

A few minutes later, I stood up to get something. 

 

When I did, I felt a prick on my foot. This happens a lot because of the nature of our work, but this was prick was different. 

 

Instead of being on the bottom of my foot, it was on the top. Instead of just pinching a little bit, it felt like it was getting deeper. 

 

Because it was! 

 

The corner of the aforementioned large, hefty metal sheet was digging into my foot. And it hurt! 

 

But luckily it didn’t do too much damage. 

 

Nothing that a good cleaning and bandaid couldn’t fix. 

 

If I’d have been wearing safety shoes. 

If I’d have been paying attention. 

If I’d have not put tin on the floor. 

Then I wouldn’t have gotten injured. 

 

We tend to go through life wondering what would have happened if…

 

May we be a more consciousness people forthright,

Doing what we know we should do,

Instead of suffering the consequences and then…

 

Amen.