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| Art by Robert Tageant |
Life
is full of surprises, unexpected news, and outcomes that were never
anticipated. Just last week I brought my car to have it's routine oil change
done before I left out of town to visit a friend. While it was being serviced, I
got a phone call that it needed some other work done... $800.00 worth of work
in fact! That's a lot of money to shell out without much notice. It threw me
into a stressed-out tizzy of crazy. I survived and the world moved on (thanks a
ton to my very patient and clear head husband - God I love him!) but my point
is life is full of things like that. Everyone I know has had something
similar happen to them in some shape, form or fashion - you can prepare all you
want but life is not a math equation. A+B does NOT = C when it comes to the
real world and you never know what is around the corner.
This
is one of the reasons I love the sh*t (excuse my French) out of knitting.
Knitting is a huge math equation and no matter how many times you do a certain
stitch pattern - if done correctly - it always turns out the same. Knit 2 then
purl 2 until you run out of stitches ALWAYS gives me a nice ribbed piece of
art. It has no variables, it has no maybes, it is certain and something that I
can always depend on unlike life. When things are going crazy and spinning
wildly out of control, I can always pick up my knitting needles and rely on
them to do exactly what I want and expect them to. Thank goodness for the
certainty of knitting – without it I would be one scary lady
some days!
