Knitting is very slow.
Knitting is not quick.
If you're an instant gratification type, knitting is not the pick.
Funnily enough, I am an instant gratification type in many ways. I find knitting a valuable exercise in slowing down, being patient, grooving on the journey rather than grinding my teeth in strained anticipation of the desitination. It's not easy. But I'm getting there.
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through... and off........
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through... and off........
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through... and off........
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through... and off........
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through... and off........
Needle through, yarn over, pull it back through, needle back in, yarn over, pull it th-h-h-hro-o-o-o-ough..... and off.....
Turn the stitch counter one...
Start again.........
Needle through...........
...and so my mind chants. Fixing my attention on such a mundane and manual task gives my mind licence to wander, yet keeps it tethered to the weaving in and out. The sublime union of freedom and restraint, liberty and bondage, makes for some fruitful reflections.
The end of the year is in sight, and so with it comes my annual spring tide of twinkly-eyed optimism. It's impossible for even the heaviest heart not to lift as the errors of the dying year are archived and the shiny promises of the new one contemplated. It's a time for potential.
I am very excited about the coming year. It's taken a long time to ramp the energy up since coming back to Brisbane; to know where to go or what to do. Or how. The first glimpses of the rest of my story have been hard to catch. But aren't the things worth having like that?
Not unlike the knitting. Stitch by stitch by stitch by stitch. It's a long, concentrated slog, but once it's finished...
Have a great Potential Season. May your coming year be just difficult enough.
9 November 2005
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Hey Ms Z glad to hear things are so perky or on the perky road.. Just wondering oh guru of all things.. I bought some seedlings.. lettuce and put them in pots and most of them are going yellow .. do you know why or where I can find out why?.. I did put soil in the pots... ) and water.. I put good soil and blood and bone.. what d'ya think?
Could be any number of things:
- Heat stress.
- Too much sun.
- Lack of nitrogen.
- Rot.
I'd suggest bringing them into a cooler, shadier area while they become established and keeping the water up, but only so much that the soil is just damp to the touch. Too much water will rot them, too little will stress them. Lettuce are delicate little beasties. When I buy seedlings I try to only buy them from a nursery where they're outside; getting them from an airconditioned store means that the shock of planting out is quite significant for them.
I have often wondered if vegetarians use blood and bone on their gardens, by the way. What does that mean for the ethics of eating the lettuce?
totally with you there .. the old blood and bone.. I only ever use my own .. that way I figure it's ethical.. like killing your own meat.. ;-)
Knitting is good for meditation... for reigning my brain in a notch if I'm overstressed yet OTOH, it works just as well to bring my brain up out of perma-vegetation while watching some bumf on primetime television.
p.s. my verification, if pronounced, might be the sound one makes while choking, "uughgexh"
Computers speed existence and expectations up: Textile therapy takes you back to the real pace of life where seconds are precious and thought provoking.
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