When Confronted With A Birthday In A

It Turns Out I Will Buy Any Yarn, Even Yarn I Will Never Use, If The Store Discounts It By More Than 50 Percent.

When You Are Knitting Socks And Sweaters And Scarves, You Aren't Just Knitting. You Are Assigning A Value To Human Effort. You Are Holding Back Time. You Are Preserving The Simple Unchanging Act Of Handwork.

I Will Resist The Urge To Underestimate The Complexity Of Knitting.

A Plain Sock By Itself Is Terribly Boring, But It Could Score Points By Having A Clever Stitch Pattern, Or Maybe By Being Made Out Of A Very Beautiful Yarn That's An Enchantment To Work With. (sadly, It Is Still Infuriatingly True That Being Beautiful Without Being Clever Is Almost Worth More Points Than Being Clever Without Being Beautiful, But Such Are The Rules Of Life And Knitting-they Are Cruel, But There Anyway).

When Confronted With A Birthday In A Week I Will Remember That A Book Can Be A Really Good Present, Too.