Namaste Knit

Change - run or crawl

"Change may open a door but a leisure walk through it is rarely involved.
You either run at full tilt with your fear nipping at your ankles or
crawl while the baggage of your thoughts weigh you down.
Regardless - you can and will make it through the door."

- Penny Relding

Athletic....

No matter what your sport, hobby or passion in the realm of physical activity, you have to admire the abilities of some athletes. It's just amazing how creative and inspiring they can be... I am posting two videos. The first video is of a bouldering competition while the second one...well, just watch. Both show amazing athletes in their own right.

Take a picture

I love photography. I love photoshop but it's even more enjoyable when your pictures just turn out right the first time around (it allows for more knitting time also).

23 Magical Photos without photoshop

Fast forward

I felt a wee bit like I was watching a 6 hour class in less than 10 minutes. I'm much more used to the slower pace of hatha yoga though versus ashtanga. Very interesting video.

Life

"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~ Mark Twain ~

Thoughts

"Knitting is very conducive to thought.  It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."  - Dorothy Day

"There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit.  So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well.  Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level.  They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference. " ~Elizabeth Zimmerman

"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by.  Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery."  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Apart from yoga, meditation, reading, it has to be one of the most serene things to do (don't lose your needles though, that can create a severe lack of serenity)."  ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus, about needlepoint

"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either. " ~Elizabeth Zimmerman

Laughter

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Victor Hugo

Religiousness

"To sense that behind anything that can be experienced, there is a something that out minds cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness." -Einstein