{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“Knitting is cheaper than therapy– and you get mittens.” – Anonymous

(Work in progress: A simple dishcloth of my own design in Lily Sugar ‘n Cream Psychadelic. The pattern is super simple:

CO 34

Rows 1-3 K to end

all even rows thereafter K2, (K2tog, yo, K)* to last two stictches, K

all odd rows thereafter K to end

Continue until work is desired length

K last 3 rows)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life–and travel–leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks–on your body or on your heart–are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” – Anthony Bourdain

(Work in progress: Simon, settling in, blissfully unaware–for the most part–that his entire worldview has been set in another direction. For life. Because this thing we are doing, it’s not just about impacting Nepal. It’s about impacting us. And that is scary, and beautiful … all at the same time.)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” -Billy Graham

(Work in progress: The emptying of our home, the filling of our hearts. No matter what the next few years bring, this much is true: Jesus is Lord.)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“Rest and be thankful.” 
― William Wordsworth

(Work in progress: A pause in the chaos of sorting, packing, purging, selling. We are at motion here constantly, consumed with the deadline looming just two weeks hence. And yet … we must also take time to rest, take stock, and be grateful for this journey.)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“She thought to herself, “This is now.” She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.” 
― Laura Ingalls WilderLittle House in the Big Woods

(Work in progress: Fingerless gloves in Cascade Superwash 220 Paints, Checkers colorway.)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“I get ideas about what’s essential when packing my suitcase.”
–Diane von Furstenberg

(Work in progress: Deconstructing our schoolroom for our move while simultaneously packing for a three and a half week trip east. What to say?)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.” -Pearl Buck

(Work in progress: Yet another of Jack’s amazing, intricate creations. This one is a Cribbage-style board game fashioned from scrap wood in a moment when the urge to do something struck him. He carved the die, whittled the game pieces, and even fashioned a sliding storage spot in the board for containing it all.)

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{Work in Progress Wednesday}

“the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don’t linger. don’t hover. you are not going to stay.”
― Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss

(Work in progress: ActionPackers being packed. A sign that things to come are, indeed, coming.)

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