None of us are free until ALL of us are free.

In my idealistic mind, we are all free because we have choice. I believe that Tibet is having their choice taken away. Sadness fills me that a country as large as China, that is receiving as much media attention as they are with the olympics, cannot see that this is the perfect time to allow Tibet their freedom. While they may not see eye to eye on this issue, there is no time like the present to give the gift of choice to those for whom it had been removed.

4 day socks!

I love sport weight yarn. These socks took 4 days and I even did laundry at the same time! These are "waterfall" sock pattern using missbabs' Van Gogh colourway.

Ahhhhh completion ecstacy!

Sunday Ahhhhhhh!

This is a peaceful Sunday. I have the mountains of laundry finished from yesterday. There is only a small kitchen mess to tidy from the UFC gathering last night. My report cards are finished. My lovely husband picked up a Timmy's coffee to start my morning. The only thing on my agenda is knitting and meditation.

What's not to like about a Sunday like that?

I like days like this because they allow me to do two things: look back and reflect on the week I just had and get settled and prepped for the week ahead. There is no rushing and feeling late. I can organize to my heart's content or just do something for myself to get centered.

So....what about my knitting? I am currently knitting the foot part of a sock. It is the first of the pair knit with Serendipity Zen Garden string. The colours are yellow, orange and black. Some of it looks bee-ish but they are certainly unique.

I ordered the yarn from woolgirl.com because I was impatiently waiting for their Sock Club to begin. I signed up in January but the initial kit doesn't arrive until April. Of course, since then I have acquired enough yarn to keep me busy until June. Tee hee.

As to my other more recent fixation with meditation, I have homework to do. The course I am taking is for beginners. I feel much like a beginner, surprise, surprise, but am comfortable with some of the exercises.

I am off to work on them now.

Cheers,
T

Opening Day

What a glorious day! Today is the day I save paper! How? Simply by beginning this blog.

I have inherited a notebook/calendar fetish from my father. He bought many stenographer's notepads and ususally used only a few pages at the beginning of them before buying a new one. I find, as I think back, I have just as many hard cover notebooks.

There is the one I started to my daughter before she was born. I think I got to her third day old.

There is one that I wrote a great list of 10. Ten things I wanted to do in my life. I loved that journal. I taped in quotes to make me feel good from a thought a day calendar. I also wrote some not good feelings in it and tore those pages out. Thus, I had to start a new one because the old one did not look like the new feelings I had. The feelings were fresh, the book, not so much.

I have one that has nasty thoughts that I know I will get over but I need to vent and I don't want to sound like the spiteful, emotional brat that I am being at that moment.

Every new adventure gets me a new notebook. I am taking a meditation course....they asked for that notebook. I went to look after my father's affairs when he passed away. That notebook has sticky notes to divide up my thoughts.

While I believe that this blog will allow me to keep putting my thoughts to words, I am sure it will remain just as scattered as the books on my shelves.....in my drawers.....in my book bags...

Cheers, T