Albus Dumbledore: "This? It is called a Pensieve. I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind."
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
This is what came to mind when I asked myself why I haven't been writing much in the blog since late last year. Like Dumbledore, it seems that I only have the motivation to post to the blog when I have too much going on in my head.
It's not that there haven't been things worth writing about. It's just that they weren't things that I wanted to memorialize in detail in this space at the time, perhaps because they were just too difficult to put to words. Perhaps I didn't have the patience or emotional fortitude to do so. Maybe I still don't, but among those worth mentioning was how close I came to making the decision to put Maia to sleep as we faced another difficult episode of constipation, and how helpless I was facing my parent's impending relocation from their home after the owner of their rental house decided to go ahead with the new development on the property. These things didn't really put me into a holiday mood, as a result. But you know what they say about silver linings.
2015 wasn't a bad year, after all. I got to meet many wonderful people from the fibre community: there's Lilliah, the artistic genius behind OAK Weaving Studio, Cathy of Cat & Sparrow Fibres, David and Imogen of Luxury Overdose Fibre Arts, Erin from Beer & Skittles, all the wonderful people I met at the fibre events that I attended this year (Spindle, Spin and Fibre Play Day at Pascoe Vale, Sheep and Woolcraft Field Day at Cranbourne, Victorian Handknitters Guild Show in Coburg where I met Rachel, the mind behind Fibreshed Melbourne, and who accompanied me to my second Bendigo Sheep and Wool show), and friendships I have made through the spinning wheels I have 'taken in'. No, it really wasn't a bad year, and I am very, very grateful to have known each and every one of these lovely people.
I'm most grateful for my housemate Robert's good-natured willingness to attend these events with me. I wouldn't have been able to go to any of these events without him. And of course, I'm grateful that this girl is still with me.
Happy 2016, everyone!
