Just to touch
base. It’s been a remarkably unproductive day. I curtailed the Italian lesson
somewhat. C. and I did manage to get around the garden, and in fairly good
order. No bench stops. . I sat down ambitiously after lunch, with some
relatively mindless television in mind, determined to knit. I pressed ahead
with the sock, as the easier project. But got nowhere. Just more or less sat
there.
This is a bit
alarming.
Well, I don't somehow think it is a sign of dementia setting in, if your recent blog posts can be taken in evidence. More likely is just taking time to recover after the social whirl of your son's visit.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that if you didn’t know what the needles were for, that’s a sign. Fatigue is not. I’ve been very tired and unable to focus since my trip to NJ. I sat last night watching television with my knitting on my lap and knit nothing.
ReplyDeleteI'm also having a knitting lull. I wonder if the planets are aligned in an odd way right now or something. :) Don't panic.
ReplyDeleteGetting around the garden with no bench stops is productive. Also tiring - maybe you were tireder than you wanted to admit, especially right after a family visit. Or maybe the socks weren't what you really wanted to knit. Resistance takes many forms. Maybe a tiny ornament would be more interesting right now.
ReplyDeleteFor me loss of interest is a sign of depression. It's not severe for me, but it does raise its ugly head, especially in February. Everything you are doing is good for fighting depression (walks and sunshine) but you might want to talk to a doctor about additional help. Depression runs in my family, so it's a familiar problem.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct about the party, not being invited or informed is the pits.
Jane
Sorry to comment twice - but you don't actually have a brother called Nigel, just a sister called Helen. I wonder why this particular parable gets your goat...
ReplyDeleteJean you have been working to deadline quite a lot in the past few years. Maybe your mind is rebelling. It happens. And look at Barbara Walker. She stopped knitting altogether (all those Treasuries) and went on to something completely different. Maybe just give yourself a vacation from knitting for a bit and focus on something else that is FUN. Hopefully the really cold weather (three months' hence?) will revive your interest. But if it doesn't, that's okay. It doesn't mean it's dementia! Chloe
ReplyDeleteI concur with needing recovery after being with people. I'm a piano teacher but hardly play at all in termtime. It's only in the Summer holiday that I rediscover enjoyment in playing again. If the current Italian topic has become a chore perhaps you can find a lighter subject or book to discuss?
ReplyDeleteOur reactions to stories can pick on odd things. I once was very angry for several months because of the man in the iron mask - I felt that the man who had been trained from birth to be king (with all the restrictions and punishments that entailed) had been hard done by, to be replaced by an untrained country bumpkin who would be easily manipulated by every courtier!
ReplyDeleteYour take on the parable, although understandable when it comes to humans and human relationships, made me sad. What about all the lunch breaks you get to take with the Father, head in his lap as he shades you, bathed in his love as he illuminates the mysteries and glories of the universe? Getting to be in daily relationship with the Father is worth EVERYTHING. He is so faithful, so good, so gracious, so wise, so righteous, so LIVING and present and ... when we choose not to be friends with him, it is like it says in Revelation - "For you say, 'I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,' not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked." (And this includes myself, until recently!)
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