Phix's Curiosity: what sparks my interest
Watch this space to see what's sparked my interest this week. A random grab bag of delights!
The wrap up is in full swing now. Presents, year, all of it. Two more working days of this year, and then reflection and revelry ahoy! The process of reviewing and assessing at the year end is always an interesting process. I have a list of questions I go through every year just so I can look back year over year over year to see how answers shift and change (or don't). It's always sort of curious when patterns start emerging.
Medusa's Garden
When you need every one and everything around you to just stop.
This time of year is traditionally really busy - an incidental lot of birthdays plus all the year end celebrations means there's just a lot going on. Working through this time of year is just... no. It's hard enough keeping up with all the events! Finding time to reflect, to wrap up, to release the old and make way for the new can be easy to lose in the hustle and bustle! There's something, for me, about sitting near the tree, with all it's lights, with all the ornaments, each with its associated memory,
When we started out, we had mostly the round glass ornaments, over the years, they've broken and others have come in and replaced them, little hand prints from when the girls were small, ornaments from friends when I was small, handmade ornaments from family, brought back from overseas, humorous, detailed and well-crafted, all of them lovely and meaningful, sweetly chaotic. We do not have a match-y match-y instagram-perfect tree. I love our trees, they are so very *us*.
Ariadne's Yarn: playing with threads
What I'm up to with fiber and possibly how mythology and stories all tie together.
I'm... not doing a lot right now. I look forward to working some on the hat, getting some more spinning done, and -- OoooOooo, my new Ply Magazine came this week and it's all about socks - I may be brave and try to learn the two socks at once method so they (maybe?) end up the same size! Socks are the perfect size for me to knit, but I always worry that they're going to come out different. They bear experimenting with though. A girl can have enough gloves and hats and scarves, but can one really ever have enough socks? Really?
Mythic Librarian: the art of arranging a life
Thoughts on ontology and ways to organize a life.
So around the edges of all the things going on, life does it's subtle and not so subtle shifting around. Endings end, new spaces open for new beginnings, new beginnings quietly start formulating their ideas whether they start emerging now or not.
It is yet to be determined whether this is the last newsletter of this year. We shall see. In the event it is, I wish you happy holidays and a fabulous new year. And if it isn't, then the same all the same.