Are we guilty?

Ghandi's list of mankind's seven social sins:

Commerce without Morality

Politics without Principle

Wealth without Work

Pleasure without Conscience

Education without Character

Science without Humanity

Worship without Sacrifice

I've just finished a book that uses the 1974 tight rope walk between the twin towers as a fulcrum. The book, Let the Great World Spin, was good, just not quite as good as I had hoped. But time will tell whether it lingers in my mind. There were several "mind pictures" that were satisfying. For instance, "I can still after all these years sit in the museum of those afternoons ..." and "... an old freckled mirror..." "She had told (her granddaughter) that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried."

And I do.

Distractions, distractions . . .

I have started an intermediate knitting class. We're doing a hat. What we're really doing is learning to use round needles, then double points . . . as well as how to knit in two colors and decrease in some odd-ball way. The first class was good. There are only two. But then I'll be taking a sweater class. There are three of those.

Wednesday after next I start an online class. It will be a sculpting class. The finished product will be somewhat like the picture above.

I hope all these classes will distract me from the renovation that's going on (allegedly) in the master bath. So far the only thing that has happened is that all the walls, floor, fixtures, etc., have been torn out. What we have now is only a shell of its former self.

Despite everything I have done to distract myself, January and February are still tough!