Yarn Along

It’s been an embarrassing week for me.  I have forgotten important things on a regular basis as the busy-ness of spring planting explored the limits of my brain and those limits were found and things started falling off the edge.  Silje’s piano teacher called after her recital.  I was going to call her because Silje said she forgot her books there.  We realized the day after.  I didn’t call in the morning, because it was busy.  She called me in the evening to say the books were found…outside…and were there during the big downpour of rain.

OK, well technically Silje forgot her piano books outside before a storm.  Still, I can’t help but wish I would make more time to knit.  Hear me out on this one.  This week I finished the bottom hem of my Tsu Sweater.  The sleeves are next, and shouldn’t take long.  That’s about a day’s worth of knitting done in one week.  Knitting organizes my brain.  It sets it into a rhythm where it gets things done.  When I don’t knit, my brain is like a big pile of tangled yarn.  That’s what it’s been lately.  I haven’t been making time for knitting.

I don’t think that’s exclusive to knitting.  I think for some people it’s music, and for others it’s drawing.  I think this is the “necessity” of art, whatever the means.  Art and music and the need to express is the one thing that baffles evolutionists, by the admission of Darwin himself.  Why is it necessary?  Why do we crave it?

I think it broadens our minds, and I don’t know about you but some days I could use more space up there.  Art requires imagination, and that is a skill that helps in all areas of life if we bother to develop and apply it.  I need to do more knitting than I have been doing, and that will be a goal of mine for the next week.

The kids and I are still reading Farmer Boy.  It’s my first time through this one and I’m just loving it more and more.  I’m contrasting Almanzo’s father in this book to Laura’s father in previous books.  They were both hard working, but Almanzo’s dad certainly has more of a head for business and has a shrewdness to him.

It’s been a really fun read.