Lessons Learned from Shrek

• When you are ugly, have a good roar, and can run fast you never have to fight.
• Unusual creatures make the best friends.
• True love makes you beautiful, not the other way around.
• You don't have to look for opportunities to be a hero. They will be thrust upon you.
• Be open minded. Not everyone is lucky enough to be an ogre.

 Sunday Morning Playlist

Lovely and mellow. Feel the breezes, listen to the birds, hang out, chill. Works well on "Shuffle" setting.

• Journey to a Rainbow, Chuck Mangione, The Best of Chuck Mangione, Jazz
• Break of Dawn, Karsh Kale, Liberation, Electronic
• Watermark, Enya, Only Time: The Collection, New Age
• Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars), Stan Getz/Laurindo Almeida, Bossa Nova for Lovers, Latin
• Morning, CBS Masterworks Dinner Classics, Breakfast In Bed, Classical
• Wave, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bossa Nova for Lovers, Latin
• Love Theme (From Bladerunner), Vangelis, Themes, Electronic
• Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer), Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, Bossa Nova for Lovers, Latin
• Daybreak, CBS Masterworks Dinner Classics, Breakfast In Bed, Classical
• I Feel Free, Cream, Fresh Cream, Rock
• O Grande Amor, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, Bossa Nova for Lovers, Latin
• Aqua, Moncef Genoud, Aqua, Jazz
• Beau soir, Frederic Chiu & Joshua Bell, Voice of the Violin (Bonus Version), Classical
• Elegie, Secret Garden, Once In a Red Moon, New Age
• Monk Meets Poulenc (medley), Paul Cantelon, Falling Water, New Age
• Rose, Jan Garbarek, Manu Katchu, Marcin Wasilewski, Slavomir Kurkiewicz & Tomasz Stanko, Neighbourhood, Jazz
• Cherry County, Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, Sixty Six Steps, Rock
• Retrograde, Leo Kottke, One Guitar, No Vocals, Folk

I like how all the genres mix together so well. It doesn't really matter in what order you play them.

(Repost from 2011)

102 Hats, so far

 I’ve made 102 hats. Some knit. Some crocheted. Some as gifts. Some donated. Of those that remain in my home, I regularly wear about 10 of those hats. 

So, what is the point? I don’t know. I craft yarn things to keep my fingers busy, and to free my brain to contemplate. Sometimes, I make something deliberately as a wearable. More often, I feel like trying a technique or construction type, or I find a yarn I can’t resist. Sometimes a funky new pattern will get me going. 

The journey has been about discovering what I will actually make, what I will actually wear, how gauge works, what kinds of yarn I prefer, and how to finish a project. Every one should give it a shot.