The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.
The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
There is no wrong way to knit. . . . We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.
Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.
Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention.
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.