“Wandering But Not Lost”

Today I ventured outside with my knitting and backpack. I tried knitting under a tree, but even in the shade it was hot after about twenty minutes by my estimation.

I’m so anticipating cooler weather that I can almost feel the cool on my skin! I’m going to love knitting outside again, and walking Sasha in the cooler weather!

I stopped in the lounge at my apartment complex today to cool down, relax, and enjoy my knitting time today. I enjoy knitting at home most, and at my favorite local yarn store, and almost anywhere I am that’s cool and comfortable. It’s the same when I crochet. I enjoy cool, comfortable places. I’m using “cool” mostly as a reference to temperature not so much ambience because I am pretty open minded as to what the “cool” aesthetic is for me “cool” boils down to tasteful design and lighting; that’s just me. If that’s your vibe awesome. If not we disagree but that’s cool too, because it’s not my business what you do in your space. And I guess that defines my style somewhat. I like comfortable, cozy, snuggly, squishy, soft clothes in all their irritation that I have experienced. And that’s how I define “cool” to the greatest extent. There’s rather a lot more to my concept of “cool” it’s definitely a loaded word for me, and does a lot of work for four letters.

It’s a generational thing, I think. Because I don’t hear it that often anymore. Which saddens me because it means my people are leaving this world or at very least I don’t know where they are anymore.

But that’s maybe not as tragic as all that. I have found new people, and maybe I am considered “weird” and maybe I am considered “more than a little odd” and some people might even see me as “crazy” or worse but there’s a kind of backwards positivity in these labels too, just like there’s an underhanded negativity in words and phrases that are generally considered “good”. So I do my best to keep an open heart, a tolerant attitude, a curious mind, and a sharp intellect. Hobbies like knitting and crocheting help me with that mission. The life affirmation they bestow on my life gives me purpose.

Like the affirmation sources from J.R.R. Tolkien in the title suggests, I struggle through things in my life purposefully because I have learned that I can.