Happy New Year

The whole concept of New year's Resolutions probably arises from the "clean it up now" feelings that we have this week. Of course, clean the holiday trimmings away that have begun to feel excessive and worn; clean the house up so this pale sunshine will still gleam. I look at the notebook of Daily Sudoku that I've accumulated learning to enjoy the puzzles, and think it's about time to stop studying the explanations and saving the careful annotations. Do I understand the xy wing yet? Probably not, but do I any longer care?

The pile of prayer shawls got too much to be hanging in the closet and it's sitting out in the dining room. I guess there's ten? eleven? The stock of wool is getting used up. I even began one in the official knitting pattern, and I find myself planning to learn how to hold the yarn in my left hand while I knit, it would be a better ergonomic method, I'm sure. Actually, I found that this exists as a common alternative called the continental method, and using it would make the stitches be twisted the other way, so I can't just change in midstream and start practicing the new way. Well, maybe I can switch like that on one. I'm starting one more of that dark burgundy I really like best, and when I go to Seattle, I'm not making ones for LaGrange.

A whole feeling of New Year.