Bright and Creative Women of the 70's Enjoying Retirement

Dear Babyboomers

R wrote "I never thought of myself as a liberated woman but more as a lucky woman. I set up my first little shop back in the 70's when most women were just starting to think about working outside the home. I always said it was more of a women's center than a shop. We gathered around tables and talked over looms about much more than spinning and weaving.

Just recently a woman came into my store and purchased one of my knit shrugs. As the sale progressed we discovered that she was an old customer from the niddy noddy. She said "the niddy noddy ascended on Waukesha like shining light, only to disappear too soon." I thought about that alot. It did disappear as all the bright and creative women went back to school and out into the workplace. There was suddenly no time for the crafts that had brought US all together. I miss US."


Clara - The Niddy Noddy was a shining light and I have missed it ever since. Yes it was much more than a shop - it was a chance to communicate with other women whilst working on a craft, such as women have done for centuries.


http://www.babyboomerconnections.com.au/ Excerpt from my site re Babyboomer women communicating by blogging or better still cogging.



"What we have to pass on to the next generation, and to the world situation, is valuable.

Women, traditionally, have met and communicated, in groups to make a quilt, or meet a community need.
We "liberated" ourselves but have we really? We still yearn for the old fashioned / meaningful chat especially when we are older, because, being 'herd animals' we need the village spirit. We had a foot in both camps, our mother and father's generation giving us our basic roots with the Women's Movement changing the whole scene."

I too, consider myself to be lucky, not only to live in this time when, as women, we enjoy having many choices, but I sometimes wonder if we have also given up some precious aspects, which fortunately we can now enjoy in our retirement - if we do it right!
Cheers Clara

Unable to copy photo - "Singing in the Rain"



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