Dis tog te dierbaar as \u2019n baba geheg raak aan sy of haar kombersie. N\u00earens daarsonder wil gaan nie, of ook nie daarsonder wil gaan slaap nie. <\/p>\n
Dit is vir \u2019n geruime tyd die belangrikste item in die kindjie se lewe. Dit verskaf troos, geborgenheid en ook warmte. Die sagtheid daarvan teen die baba se wangetjie stimuleer die gevoelsintuig.<\/p>\n
Daardie gevoel bly \u2019n mens maar lewenslank by. Al is mens hoe groot, oud, en sterk, daardie troetelgevoel bly sterk. Grootmense wil in slegte tye hulself dikwels net toewikkel in \u2019n kombers as skans teen die wrede w\u00eareld.<\/p>\n
Ek het in \u2019n selfhelpboek gelees dat daar helende krag in skeppende werk is. Skilder of teken is nie onder my talente nie. Maar ek het gedurende \u2019n moeilike tyd in my lewe besef ek moet daardie skeppende ding doen om heel te word. Dis toe dat ek die breipenne opneem. <\/p>\n
Ek is hopeloos om \u2019n breipatroon te lees, maar met die hulp van vriendin Linda en maters by die omgeegroep, kon ek \u2019n paar varia-sies van die mossteek brei. Steek vir steek, ry vir ry, het ek blokkie vir blokkie klaar gebrei. Tot daar uit-eindelik na maande genoeg blokkies was vir \u2019n kombers. <\/p>\n
Die harde werk was om dit noukeurig aanmekaar vas te werk, en af te rond met \u2019n randjie. Ek was so verras met die eindproduk! Dit was vir my so mooi. Maar bowenal, het die kombers my helingsproses aangehelp. Om dit net op my bed te sien l\u00ea, was klaar vertroostend. En om dit nog saans oor my te gooi wanneer ek gaan slaap en die sagte wol teen my wang te voel, was soos toe my pa my as klein dogtertjie toegewikkel het. <\/p>\n
Die knusheid van my kombers in sandkleure, het my ge\u00efnspireer om sommer nog \u2019n kombers vir my dogter Erika te brei. Sy wou graag een in skakerings van rooi h\u00ea. <\/p>\n
Vir my seun Ruhan het ek een gebrei in blou, rooi en wit. Daarna volg een vir my kleinseun Heston in groene, en nog een in pienke en perse vir Yula. Daar volg toe een vir \u2019n spesiale vriend, in pers en grys. Toe Yula koshuis toe is vanjaar, het sy gevra ek moet vir haar \u2019n kom-bers brei in die kleure van die see. <\/p>\n
Dit het pragtig uitgekom. Sy s\u00ea as die dag rof is, is dit vir haar lekker om te weet haar see-kombers wag vir haar. Ek en Erika het saam gebrei aan \u2019n ligte groen kombers.<\/p>\n
Met my weeklikse besoek aan \u2019n tehuis vir bejaardes, merk ek dat daar op die meeste bejaardes se beddens \u2019n handgemaakte kombersie l\u00ea. Meeste is gebrei of gehekel. <\/p>\n
Miskien gaan die komberse wat ek gebrei het, ook enduit saam ouetehuis toe \u2026 <\/p>\n
Dit gee my eindelose genot om te weet dat ek \u2019n bydrae kon maak tot die gevoel van veiligheid en geborgenheid wat \u2019n kombers kan verskaf. Al is dit op my kokaai manier met hier en daar \u2019n glips, is daar baie liefde ingebrei. Dis my wens dat elke kind \u2013 en grootmens \u2013 \u2019n \u201cbersie\u201d het wat daardie skans is teen die w\u00eareld. Of dit nou een is van lappies, gebreide blokkies, gehekelde kurwes of \u2019n duvet wat soos \u2019n wolk oor jou vou \u2013 ons het almal so een nodig. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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