Knitting a Yarn

Commence at the commencement, where only fairy tales begin. Once upon a time there was a spinster in her cradle, cut out for spinsterhood long before her birth. When older, and well established as a spinster, she thought she'd perhaps had a voice in the matter, had perhaps chosen this course for herself. Her purpose not to procreate but to read, often absorbingly, sometimes mechanically; to at all times keep her eyes and fingers employed. And indeed she may be right, for, if reading and a little life experience had taught her anything it was that a crowd out for fun could easily become a mob out for blood. She did not dispute this truth but rather feared it.

Picture credit: The Artist's Wife Knitting, 1920,William James Glackens (source: WikiArt).

From journal, May 2023.