My Obsession With Pinterest
Really,
why have I developed an obsession with Pinterest? I spend time I could be
reading a fabulous book or sewing or cultivating plants or cleaning my dust
bunny overrun house pinning things I like to Pinterest.
In
lieu of reading the Washington Post or the New York Times, I surf the online
Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom catalogs for “to die for” footwear, handbags and
accessories or the Metropolitan Museum of Art archives for gorgeous clothes and
accessories of the past or international museum sites for art that makes my
heart sing.
It
isn’t as if I can take a high road and say “well at least I’m not shopping or
playing online games”. Essentially, I am
wasting time. But, it is my time to
spend chilling in any way that seems appropriate. After a challenging week at work where I’ve
overworked my brain, sometimes I think it is beneficial to do something
mindless. And, pinning things that I
find beautiful brings me happiness. It isn’t as if I lust for the people,
places or things I pin. I just appreciate them. Appreciating beauty is a good
thing. And from my humble perspective I can justify that it is no more mindless
than watching most TV programs.
And
from some perspectives, I can call it research- especially when I am searching
museum archives for mid 19th Century clothes, accessories and
photographic evidence that documents the way people of the American Civil War
era lived and dressed.
Yea-
that’s the ticket. Research!
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