Better

Yesterday was shite. I had a terrible headache almost from the time I woke up until the time I went to sleep. But today was much better. The headache drifted away, and I had a productive day of proofreading, housework, knitting, and art!

For about a half hour, I grabbed some masks and did a remote photo shoot with Whitefeather, and here is one of the results:



In the past three days, I have knit two hats. Today, I'm working on a scarf. I'm really liking my Knifty Knitters.

Here's the first hat I ever made, created Sunday:

Miles Away

Miles Away
Carol Ann Duffy

I want you and you are not here. I pause
in this garden, breathing the colour thought is
before language into still air. Even your name
is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again
and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight
I make you up, imagine you, your movements clearer
than the words I have you say you said before.

Whereever you are now, inside my head you fix me
with a look, standing here whilst cool late light
dissolves into the earth. I have got your mouth wrong,
but still it smiles. I hold you closer, miles away,
inventing love, until the calls of nightjars
interrupt and turn what was to come, was certain,
into memory. The stars are filming us for no one.

(from jonathancarroll, whose blog is paved with gold)