Saturday Sky for September 13th

This is always a weird time of the year for me. It brings up a lot of memories. I've had several half-finished posts rolling around my head for the last few days. However, I don't think I'm ready or able to articulate any of them now, except to say that I was sad to see quite a few American flags NOT at half-staff on 9-11.

Instead, here are some Saturday Sky pictures for this week.

3 Quick Things

1. "Everybody's Working For The Weekend" is an early 80's song by the Canadian band Loverboy.

2. My sister-in-law's younger sister was minutes away from getting on the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis when it collapsed yesterday evening. She had to deal with being stuck in traffic, & finding an alternate way to get home, but she's fine. I'm so relieved for her, but so sorry for the families with missing or fallen loved ones. It's been an emotional day, & made a couple of posts I read yesterday seem even more meaningful & especially relevant.

3. This local story is very uplifting. I especially appreciate the last sentence.

A Disturbance in the Force

There seems to have been a bit of a kerfuffle in KnitBlogLand recently. Curiousity got the better of me, & I've poked around a bit on other "A-List" knit blogs ("A" in this case standing more for "An extreme amount of comments every day" & not necessarily anything more than that.) There's evidently been some negative comments going around about knit podcasters, in addition to knit bloggers.

It seems some people are jealous of the commercial successes or "popularity" of others. Others perhaps are protesting the "hive mind" aspect of the internet. (Let's overlook for a minute that participating in a virtual pile on of negativity online makes one just as much part of a "hive mind" mentality, just in a different fashion.) Whatever the reason, it seems silly to waste time that would be better spent knitting typing out negative rants instead.

It seems to me that we are constantly voting online, with our time & with our dollars. The Land of Knitting is very wide, & stretches out in all directions. There are more excellent patterns & wonderful yarn than any one person can hope to use in a lifetime, even given an unlimited budget & 24 hours a day to knit. Deciding which pattern & which yarn best suits us is something that we do every day, & we don't all come to the same decisions. There is nothing wrong with that.

Not every pattern is for everyone, nor is every yarn; so why would anyone expect that every knit blog, or every knitting podcast would be for everyone? Read or listen to the ones that appeal. Drop the ones that don't. Very simple. There's enough space in KnitBlogLand for everyone.