I am often asked: "can you make a living from crafting prayer
wheels?"
The answer is a bit complex, but in the big picture, yes. You can make a
living from crafting prayer wheels.
As I break down this YES answer into little answers, you can understand
what I meant by complex answer…
We live our lives each day doing something for money and we call that
thing "work". We work for money… sometimes for someone else being a
hired hand, and sometimes for ourselves, being a "business owners"…
but all the same, we all work for money so we can live our lives… this is pretty
simple and easy to understand.
I have done SOOOOOOOO many different jobs in my life… so many, that if I
try to make a list, it will be too long… very interesting, but long!
Taking into consideration why we get paid for what we do, we start to
understand how it all works… we do something for someone and they value
our doing it by giving us money… that is how they show their appreciation for
what it is we did for them… thus, getting paid… simple 😊
So, over the years I got paid different amounts by the value
I gave back to society… my last "day job" was an agriculture farm
manager. This required most of my time and mind space and there was little to
no time for anything else… I needed to grow the best crops, fight to get paid
good money for them in the market and make sure I do not spend more money than I
made… boss like style 😊
After a few years of doing this I had an epiphany! Time is running out!
My
older brother got sick, a good friend of mine died of cancer and another good
friend got the news of cancer… that got me thinking… life is ending. Time is
running out… what do I want to do in the time I have left? Do I want to be a
farmer? Do I want to be a factory production manager? Do I want to work for
someone else? Or do I want to do something I believe in and find to be right livelihood?
Like
a prayer wheel maker…?
The answer is clear: a prayer wheel maker.
But, as time moves on forward since that choice has been made and I have
quit all my "day time" jobs, it is a continues straggle to make money
to live... Israel is an expansive country to live in and expanses are high...
material cost is very high and the most expansive thing we have in our studio
is our time… if we take the cost of our lives and spread it over a month we find
out how much money we must earn per hour…
We do what we believe in. making prayer wheels. But we rely on the
kindness of strangers and if they like what we do…
We want to craft prayer wheels as long as we can so we can spread love
and kindness to all beings in all realms, but that will only work if our artwork
will be sold…
So, we hope for the best!
We want to thank you all for your support, through your kindness we can
do what we love and what we find to be the best livelihood
may it all work out and we can continue to craft prayer wheels! (but if not, there is always a 9 to 17 job out there)
lots of love,
Micha & Ayelet
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