Knitting can be enormously complicated, but one can choose to focus on something very simple. The simplicity offers an opportunity to notice the early entrance of our resident evaluators. Sylvia Boorstein writes about keeping things simple in her book, Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There. “When we are able to watch our experience in detail, we see clearly the internal ping-pong of the mind as it goes about liking or not liking every single thing.”
In addition, with knitting, one may notice how free other people, including strangers, feel to comment on whatever one happens to be knitting. What an unexpected kindness to offer this reminder, this external reflection of a loyal internal process.
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