Talent

I wish I was talented. I wish I was one of those people that if you needed someone to _____ they would turn to you because you are the best _____er they know.

I wish I could sing. I can blend pretty good - so I guess I'm perfect for a choir or chorus. I love to sing in the car - and when I have the actual singer along with me, it's not bad. Just take away the vocals and it's a whole different story. I have a very good friend who has the most amazing voice. He sang at my wedding and just blew me away. I had him sing between the attendents and my entrance just so I could stand in the back with my daddy and be able to enjoy his voice before walking down the aisle.

I wish I could play the piano. My grandfather was a wonderful pianist and organist. I don't have the hand span needed to make a full chord - and to be honest I don't have the coordination it takes to play two different things with my hands. There are many great pianists in my family. I guess it just skipped me. I do, however, have my grandfather's piano. I really need to find a new place to keep it - it's too heavy for my mobile home floor and the room where it is has a slight tilt towards where it sits now.

I wish I could sew. I tried sewing when I was in high school and again when I was in my first apartment. I just get distracted and don't keep my eye on the seams, so I tend to have crooked lines. Not good. My mother and grandmother could sew pretty much anything. I have dolls my grandmother (Nan) made me - and a teddy bear my mom made me. My niece, Susan, seems to have inherited the sewing gene - she makes the cutest bags.

I wish I could draw or paint. My brother is an amazing artist. My stick people don't even look right. I do have a set of paints, pencils and watercolors that I bought a few years ago that I've not opened yet. When I come home in the twilight hours I am enthralled with the colors of the mountains and how they blend into the sky. I want to capture it in watercolors, but again, don't really know how. I guess I just need to break them out and play with them and see how they work.

I wish I could bake and cook. I can do fine with the basics - cake mixes, burgers, pot roast... I want to be able to bake a cake and decorate it and have it look like something. Perhaps I watch too many of the cake decorating shows - they make it looks so easy and you find yourself thinking: "Heck, I could do better than that!" I would love to just whip something up from what I have in the fridge without having to follow a recipe and have it taste like something.

Hmmm, what can I do? Well, I can crochet and knit. I haven't figured out how to follow a pattern in knitting that involves changing colors unless it's at the end of a row. However, my mother can and I need to get her to show me this winter. I am able to follow most other patterns and have it look like what it's supposed to. I love to do yarn-work - especially in the winter. It gets a bit hot to work on larger projects in the summer.

Is there a talent you wish you had?