Not much has happened and yet I want this blog to represent more of my life than mere book posts, even books and the ability to escape into the pages of a book is much of what makes life tolerable.
1. I finished another knitting project, an open-work wool scarf knit out of a DK-weight wool, Colorissimo by Lana Grossa. I am very happy with this project and look forward to wearing it even though I can safely assume that it will be a few months yet before this appears regularly in my wardrobe.
2. I also realized that I made an erroneous assumption somewhere along the line. I started the year thinking I would continue this blog, and also reconnect with my sewing and knitting blogs. For a few months I manage to do so. Then life intervened and I struggled. At some point I decided that running multiple blogs was a silly idea and I abandoned it. I was wrong.
I realize now that decision was fueled by exhaustion, by my inability to really keep up with much of anything in life, in fact fueled by chemotherapy and my struggle withe the initial adriamycin/cytoxan regimen. My mistake was to assume that, because my previous goals seemed impossible in that moment, they would also be impossible in the future. Life under my current paclitaxel regimen is easier in many ways than that previous regimen, but not without its complications and difficulties. Still, my head, at least is clearer. Although I realize that all of my assumptions about life and my priorities pre-2020 are no longer viable, not all of those assumptions should be tossed into the refuse bin.
Hence I have resumed writing on purlsandmurmurs. This week I wrote three posts on that blog, two catching up with finished projects, and one about the newly completed scarf show above, basically bringing that blog up to date since my last post in April. I will continue with both blogs and eventually reengage with my sewing blog as well. I am now imagining a trio of overlapping circles. They do not have to be completely separate; there will be some overlap between them, but overall they form a balanced whole.
3. Following a recommendation on Frances's blog, I watched the Korean Series Navillera on Netflix. I thoroughly enjoyed this program and felt it was incredibly well written and balanced with good development of all the characters, both the primary characters and the supporting roles, throughout the program. It helped me considerably with my knitting, but as the program was in Korean with English subtitles, it would have been easy enough and engaging enough to enjoy without a knitting project in my hands. Indeed there were quite a few times I needed to look at the TV and not my lace crossovers, which also provided the necessary balance my neuropathy-addled fingers needed.
As an aside, I cannot begin to tell you how hard I find it to take a photo of a picture on my TV screen. Just capturing the photo above took me days of repeating and freezing the screen and balancing my own native inclination to shoot everything crooked and out of focus. My brothers will tell me how much this frustrated them even when we were in high school. I must have taken well over 100 photos. Apparently my personal sense of being somewhat slightly out of focus with the world is deeply embedded. But then I suspect that life without challenges and complications would be a boring life indeed.
