Mark Your Makes: How To Know When You Made What

Hey friends, hey, it's Lisa from Black Women Stitch and the Stitch Please podcast.

And as I say every other week, this is a very special episode because this episode is going to help us keep track of the things that we create.

Because my thing is this, when you create something, when you make a garment, when you make a quilt, when you create a sweater, when you make a scarf, all of the things that you are creating, these things would not exist had you not made them.

If you had not made this scarf, if you had not made these leggings, if you had not made these socks, these socks would not exist.

These are things that you have made and created.

And in that way, it feels like the makes, the things that we create are significant and special.

And it's a way to make our mark on the world.

Now, you might not deliberately set out to say, oh, when I made these leggings, I was making my mark in the world.

No, not necessarily, but it is an indelible new thing that exists.

And in that way, it does make a mark on the world.

So this brings me to today's episode and why I am so excited and shout out Word Nerds to the front.

If you are a Word Nerd, come on over, sit next to me, stand next to me on the sewing table because I'm about to show you something so much fun.

We are about to have something extra special fun for just the Word Nerds for just a second.

And that is the fact that this episode, which is really about marking your makes, is a chiasmus.

Okay.

So a chiasmus is a chiasmus and it's C-H-I-A-S-M-U-S.

A chiasmus is a rhetorical device using inverted mirror image parallelism.

And it has the sentence structure A-B-B-A.

That's not important.

The important part is that it's like a, what is that called? a palindrome.

It's like a palindrome in phrase form.

So one of the most famous ones is done by John F. Kennedy, the president who said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The one that I really love is from Frederick Douglass's narrative that says, you have seen how a man was made a slave.

You shall see how a slave was made a man.

And this is about this crucial point in his narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass.