#24 My favourite non-human animal, and why

I am afraid that there is nothing terribly exciting about this; I was a horsey child and I still fundamentally really like horses. I have learned an enormous amount about body language and power dynamics and inferring intent from spending time around them; I've got stronger and more confident and more sure of myself; they're big enough to hug properly and enormously soothing to feed and to groom and to take care of. They're a set of interactions I am just uncomplicatedly good at, and it is such a relief, and they're a means by which I can still (though I haven't, and should maybe fix that) go out in hills and woodland and not exhaust myself.

#25 Something about religious orders

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#26 Current or planned-for-the-near-future crafting

Ahem. Well. There's a commission that's about 18 months overdue, which I will be working on properly over the next few days in Cornwall (IN THEORY >_>).

I will be teaching largest smallcousin to knit in the round with DPNs likewise; she wants to make a pair of mittens. I can but hope I've picked out appropriate yarn (she gave me a spec, I made a guess...). I am contemplating making a scarf for CN Lester's partner, who admired one I wore around them recently.

Less crafting, more practical: sewing the sodding buttons back onto all my duvets covers.

I very definitely mean to learn how to write up patterns for double-knitting and get the thing I've charted up on Ravelry, but I have been meaning to do that for ages and stalling because Stress. (Suggestions/reference material welcome!)

... thaaat's probably it for stuff I'm likely to get to any time soon. I do have a pile of yarn and a pile of patterns with Intentions (the former matched to the latter, even!), but currently I am pretty stuck on (1) guilt (2) possibly not having enough purple from that dye lot (3) fretting about RSI, so.

#27 Intentional community & chosen family

I have managed, one way and another, to gather a very large number of totally awesome people, and I honestly don't really know how or why. It feels in very large part as though it is something I have lucked into.

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