News — do not be silent

One of my favorite books may be Anne Lamotte's "Help, Thanks, Wow". When I think about the kind of help I myself find myself asking for it's typically asking for support and for sustenance through the awful. Praying for little bits of grace or peace, for rest, for strength to get through one more moment. I've definitely experienced a lot of that in the last couple of years.So today I really am holding my hope and prayer around the people of Ukraine as they fight for their country and for their independence against Putin's invasion. As their faces and pictures and videos fill my phone screen and little bits of...

I was reading/watching my Instagram story feed this afternoon and saw someone say something to the effect of, "Listening and Learning is the new Thoughts and Prayers." It was in regards to the current discussions about racism in the fiber and fashion world, making our community more inclusive, and addressing the underlying bias and lack of representation within the knitting and slow fashion communities. I mean, that's barely even a nutshell, it's about so much more and it's been going on for almost two full months now, so there's a lot of content. Anyway, I saw that comment in someone's story (I...