in which astrid-the-cat has two cameos.

Finally, Elizabeth’s school bag is finished– just in time to be a day late for her birthday.

Pattern: Satchel

Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Coal, 7 skeins insgesamt

Needles: Can’t remember.

Maybe the strap is a little long (and stretchy); maybe the black will show cat hairs a little too readily. This is an almost-exact replica of the bag I carry everywhere (powerfully ugly, quite shapeless, the color of dirt, indestructible, begrudgingly loved), except that the strap is in garter stitch instead of stockinette (less rolly, but more stretchy).

Hopefully she likes it.

and:

commissioned to please-finish-this-project-I-am-sick-of-it. All that’s left is the non-knitting part; things may get exponentially slower.

studieren

Auf Deutsch, wenn man “einsam” ist, fühlt man allein. Aber, wenn man “zweisam” ist, dass heißt das Gefühl der Zusammenheit. Ich finde dass suß.

In German, if a person is “one-ly,” that person feels alone. But, if a person is “two-ly,” that means a feeling of togetherness. I think that’s sweet.

scraped my elbow.

“There Ajax slipped in his running, for Athena unbalanced him”
– Iliad XXIII, 774

finally.

finally, these have been given to their rightful owner.

Pattern: one I sort of made up. A twisted-stitch lattice, all around, coming out of the cuff ribbing. Symmetrical increases along the thumb gusset. This was back over Thanksgiving Break; I can’t remember it very well.

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette

Needles: also don’t remember.

baby sweater, baby sweater.

made, mostly, while standing around at the quarry, talking philosophy.

and, like everyone else who has ever made one, I am awestruck at the miraculous construction of this one.

Pattern: Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket

Yarn: mysterious, unlabeled, laceweight wool & alpaca, which I’ve had as long as I can remember.

Needles: sz. 2 addi turbos.

Also: i-cord edging.

Mango Bread

cinnamon, ginger, curry.

beautiful.

Initiative.

inanimum est enim omne, quod pulsu agitatur externo; quod autem est animal, id motu interiore et suo

Indeed, that is completely dead which moves by external compulsion; but that is alive, which moves by its own interior motion.

– Cicero, Somnium Scipionis

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Initium ut esset, creatus est homo.

That there might be a beginning, man was created.

– St. Augustine, City of God (as pointed out by, who else, Hannah Arendt).

Tuesday.

“Carolina has the happiest students in the nation,” I heard a tour guide say to his group.

I mean. Who could argue?

Happily Ever After

Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute.

And if they have not died, then they are still alive today.