The piece below is essentially a sock for a picture frame. I wanted to knit a picture frame for my friend weeza's grad present. Now, she is a fabulous industrial designer who is soon going to land a fabulous job in Boston...i can just FEEL it! So, I wanted it to be of a really nice quality. I picked great wool, took time deciding how large I wanted the coverage of a 4 by 6 to be, how it would hang, etc. While I made some changes to the last piece I completed (the backgammon board, or shesh besh if you prefer) in its pattern, this piece is my first completely self-designed pattern. I know it may seem like a small deal, but here's hoping it is a sign of fabulous designs to come. In any case, the photo in the frame is of the two of us when I went in to cuse for her grad weekend (and momma's day). Happy being out of college and entering "being an adult" land. Hah! adult! There are such cooler things to do...but we all succumb eventually:) I kid you.
Ok, now I am rambling at 2:45 in the morning. But as a last thought I leave you this: yesterday a 25 year old syracuse man died from wounds inflicted by a drive by shooting. the shooting took place about a 3 minute drive from where i live and was at the time. It was also in the next block from a friend's house where I spend lots of time when i am in cuse. Right now I have been listening, in an unrelated event I believe, to a helicopter for about an hour fly what sounds like around and around my house. Hmmmmm....so why do helicopters fly around a few square blocks for an hour at 1:30 in the morning. They MUST be looking for a house to buy. It's a pretty quaint part of town. Or could it be searching for something else. I bring up these two things for one because i can't sleep with that helicopter sounding like it is right outside my window (and actually being in sight from time to time), but also because i don't need to go to Israel to feel unsafe. Some of you have expressed concern for my safety in Israel. I don't deny that it is an unstable place. But I don't have to be in Israel to have my safety jeopardized and i think Americans, and others, are beginning to understand that. I promise I will try to avoid things that are obviously bad ideas - for example, no matter how much I want to go into the West Bank and Gaza I will not when there is serious civil strife and/or an Israeli offensive going on. I believe that troubles come our way no matter where we live or what we do. We might as well be where we wanna be and do what we wanna do if at all possible. I am choosing a path where my heart and head guide me. Perhaps I am being irrational.
a friend today, in a piece of writing on his website, defined the term 'individual truth' as something which, "we create using the tools we have been given—various communal truths, rationality, and gut feeling." I like that. I don't know which, of those three components, is guiding my decision to head to Israell. I do know that I am following my gut. I made a rational decision making process in order to come to the decision. And I don't believe that i would have chosen WHAT i have chosen to do there if i weren't being pulled along with the communal truths that are so much a part of my world view.
with that, and the fact that the helicopter has been gone for about 10 minutes now, i leave you for a good nights sleep, I hope I was coherent...
i hope that i can even get to israel...the roads that i would need to take to get downstate are almost all flooded our right now and closed. shiza. it is a balagan.
p.s. - hey mrs. d. What do you think for the frame: hand made or home made:)?
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mrs d??? Well, Diane likes that cute knitted frame. Good work, Ris. You sure have branched out from the scarves you were making when you started.
But then, so have I expanded on my skills and abilities in the book binding world. In fact, I am making myself a real studio in the former bedroom of people you know.
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