How often do you have to knit to be a “knitter”? or how well? Is it the finished products that make a “knitter”? or the intention?
I propose that one can be a primitive knitter with only one stitch and qualify as a “knitter” on the grounds that creativity has found a medium for expression, With [...]
Perhaps yarn should be named. Seems more personal than accepting the name of the yarn and color that comes on the label. Working with the yarn, one gets to know it in a different way, and discovers its true name. Like Ursula LeGuin talks about in the Earthsea Trilogy. Only certain people speak someone’s true name [...]
As I was talking with some women before a class I was doing for beginning knitters, I was touched by how articulate they were about why they were there. They each worked in places that were involved with frequent crisis in families with young children.
As we were talking about the ups and downs of [...]
Calm abiding (samatha) meditation is also known as single-pointed concentration. It is designed to “enhance the ability to hold one’s mind on a single object or topic with clarity and stability”. -Wikipedia
The first time I ever heard of calm abiding, I was driving and listening to an audio tape from the library. The Dalai Lama [...]