July 2012
To get back into knitting, I started a little project while waiting for the yarn for Skyler’s sweater to arrive.
This used up some leftover yarn and is going to be a “fake sock top” to stick out of boots, thusly:
I made up my own pattern, but you can find the one in the picture above here.
For Monday
Albert Einstein’s three rules for work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity
2. From discord, find harmony
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Friday Unrelated Information
1. Summer, where are you going? I realized Labor Day is six weeks away. Sigh.
2. APOD posted a picture of the Tulip Nebula this week. Space is pretty.
More Zen
Pretty Much
Tuesday Pending Project: Hobbit Child
The yarn I ordered for Skyler’s sweater arrived this week. Between the color and the pattern I decided on, I think he’s going to look like a little hobbit when it’s done. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course.
This
+ this
= this:
Getting My Zen Back
19.
Once at Cold Mountain [or Mount Aire], troubles cease –
No more tangled, hung up mind.
I idly scribble poems on the rock cliff,
Taking whatever comes, like a drifting boat.
(From Han Shan, the Cold Mountain Poems, translated by Gary Snyder)
Peace out, nature.
Friday Unrelated Information
1. Happy birthday to my favorite novelist of tragedy and despair and horses, Cormac McCarthy.
2. From my friend Jason’s blog, here’s a picture of Papa Hemingway at home in Cuba in 1947. Nice slippers, Hem.
Frodo Lives
The Writer’s Almanac tells me that it’s the anniversary of the 1954 publishing of The Fellowship of the Ring. The trilogy started as a sequel to The Hobbit, took 17 years to write, was interrupted by WWII, and ended up over half a million words long.
Then some people made it into movies, which gave us the source of this gif.
What Elizabeth Bishop Thinks
“We write for the same reason we read or look at paintings…for the total immersion of the experience, the narrowing and intensification of focus to the right here, right now, the deep joy of bringing the entire soul to bear upon a single act of concentration.”