Bringing parts together

I used to havre a section of this blog devoted to knitting. I am an avid knitter and always multiple projects in process. Then someone suggested to me that I should focus just on professional material. So I took down the knitting portion.  I have often thought about this quote from Marie Louise von Franz on knitting :Everybody who has knitted or done weaving or embroidery knows what an agreeable effect this can have, for you can be quiet and lazy and also spin your own thoughts while working. You can relax and follow your fantasy and then get up and say you have done something! Also the work exercises patience...Only those who have done such work know of all the catastrophes which can happen -- such as losing a row of stitches just when you are decreasing! It is a very self-educative activity and brings out feminine nature. It is immensely important for women to do such work and not give it up in the modern rush.  (The Feminine in Fairy Tales, Spring Publications, 1972, p. 40)Making it clear to me that knitting, like painting or writing, has its place in this process of self-discovery that I am so much engaged in, for myself and with my patients.Along the way I ran across this poem:Vision begins to happen in such a lifeas if a woman quietly walked awayfrom the argument and jargon in a roomand sitting down in the kitchen, began turning in her lapbits of yarn, calico and velvet scraps,laying them out absently on the scrubbed boardsin the lamplight, with small rainbow-colored ...
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