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Unraveled Wednesday | 2.24.21
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Greetings Unravelers! It's the very last Unraveled Wednesday in February! And while we certainly had a wintry February here in Pittsburgh – the snowiest...
Release | February 2021
I am joining Carolyn again this month to share my word update. This may be the most exhausting blog post I have ever written. I started it on Friday, rewrote it on Saturday, deleted it on Sunday and started again...exhausting to the nth power! And even then......
100 Days of Hope | Week 9
“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ― E.E. Cummings Winter reminded us over that it was far from over this week. We got snow, on snow, on snow, with a bit of freezing rain thrown in for fun... Oh, and bitter cold temperatures for the exclamation...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.17.21
As I get ready to embark on my Lenten Poetry Journey, I thought some words of wisdom from Ferlinghetti's Poetry As Insurgent Art would be the perfect thing to start me on my journey! Be a songbird, not a parrot. Be a canary in the coal mine. (A dead canary is not just...
Presidents’ Day | 2.15.21
This weekend being a long weekend was advantageous...it was icy over the weekend and overnight came some more snow, not as much as was predicted (thank goodness) but still, it is good that Steve has today off. I stumbled across this poem by Louise Glück and I thought...
100 Days of Hope | Week 8
This week I was reminded over and over and over how poetry brings hope. "Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” ― Mary Oliver Mary Oliver must have been seeing...
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.10.21
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee That quote defines my life this week...Laundry? Dusting? Meh...I have been consumed with knitting this week! This week I have...
Looking Back | January 2021
“JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again, Changing energies and deserting old moods, New beginnings, new attitudes” ― Charmaine J Forde Charmaine Forde seemed to know exactly what I was trying to achieve in January. Starting over,...
100 Days of Hope | Week 7
“Art is the highest form of hope.” ― Gerhard Richter This week I really noticed mornings that were lighter. It is just so nice to walk Sherman and greet the morning at.the.same.time! (rather that stumbling around in the darkness!) This morning it was mild but windy....
Unraveled Wednesday | 2.3.21
“A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee There was a similar discussion in my house recently, this quote works for spinning as well... because that wheel in the living room? Why yes, it is an object...
Monday Magic | 2.1.21
“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.” ― Pema Chödrön I stumbled upon this quote this weekend and have been pondering it ever since. It...
100 Days of Hope | Week 6
“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head Welcome to Week 6 of Hope. This week, I found that humor is a necessary element of hope... especially...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.27.21
...I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. — Stephanie Pearl-McFee Greetings Unravelers! Welcome to the final Wednesday in January. Was it me, or did this month just fly by? I managed to have a finish this month though! Autumn Forest is...
Release | January 2021
A New Year, a new word, a new day, and a new home for our monthly link up! I am excited to join Carolyn as she hosts us this year! January word studies might be one of my favorite things. Digging into a word, looking at all the possibilities, releasing any...
100 Days of Hope | Week 5
When I'm at work I sing. It gives me strength during difficult times, and I believe it helps heal. — Lori Marie Key I don't know if you all watched the very moving and long overdue Memorial for the more than 400,000 American's who have died. I did and it seems that...
Unraveled Wednesday | 1.20.21
What we love to do we find time to do. — John L. Spalding Welcome to Inauguration Day Unravelers! This past week has been all about vacillating between wanting to watch the news and trying to avoid the news. I think I found a good balance and in the process did some...
MLK Jr Day | 1.18.21
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr It's MLK Jr Day so why does it still feel like for every step we take forward, there are dozens of steps back. And if I in my white privilege feel this, how much...
100 Days of Hope | Week 4
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ― John Bunyan This week, hope seemed to be jumping up all around me shouting... Over here! and Look at me! Yes, hope was overflowing and it filled me! Lots of people doing...
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