The Towhee and his mate are gone. There's been a major clean up in the yard next door, and the peace and tranquility that reigned there is no more. The two cats that lived together under the patio roof there are now out of a home as well.
Rant...
Knitting? well...... er...... I haven't been knitting. I've been trying to steady my nerves with a flurry of activity other than knitting. I've slowly managed to climb back down out of my tree by ripping three big boxes of magazines apart and re-cycling parts of them. You see, I want to live near my kids, this isn't going to happen, end of story. So, if you read about a woman biting herself in half, it's probably yours truly. I will have snapped.
Hey, I realized I never really mentioned what it was that kept me reading your blog after I stumbled upon it. I like your well-developed sense of spirituality, I very much appreciate your subversive politics and sense of humor, and, as an artist, I am tremendously taken by your photography and your "accidental art"-- your eye. I don't very much understand the knitting aspect of much of what you write (although I was truly blown away by the 70's macramé tie!), but I do appreciate and admire your painstaking devotion to it all. I also appreciate your sense of caring, and community, and responsibility. When I read your blog, I frequently feel, I guess, like a "boy" running around and poking through the girls' locker room after everyone's gone home. I feel like I don't fit in. And I don't feel like, when you now see my own blog, that it fits in at all with what you and your internet circle of "girls" are doing. I just want you to know that you do, in fact, make a difference-- even if I'm not someone who knits!
ReplyDeleteWow, Sam. Thanks for your explanation of the reasons why you read here, and I really am touched by what you've said.
ReplyDeleteAs an artist you know how intensely people with an artist's "eye" feel that they need to make a difference in the realm of emotions and the spiritual. The "money and power" thing is pretty far from an artist's goal in life. Well, maybe not the money thing. hehe
About knitting. I'm in it for the color and creativity as well as the fact that it calms my killer instincts.. Just Joking! But one of the Blog circle members has a button she created that says, "I knit, so I do not kill people." I am still trying to figure out if that means she would kill if she didn't knit. It's that "comma".... very mysterious.
Once again, I enjoy your blog now that I've found it, so thank you for introducing yourself!
Peace, or Else! hehe And of course you fit in here. Even people who crochet, which is truly one of the seven deadly knitting sins, are welcome here. ;o)