A friend of mine who knows me in my musician world asked me recently "how do you have time to knit?"
Music, like many fields, is extremely time-consuming, takes both physical and mental energy, and has extremes in emotional highs and lows. You can get obsessed with detail, structure and form, finding the perfect "color", and trying to make it all come together perfectly. Hm.. sound like something else I am also familiar with...
The great cellist Pablo Casals was known to say that the first thing he did in the mornings was to play a movement from a Bach Suite, even before "bread and water", thus implying that it was the music that sustained and nourished him even more than food. Personally, I can barely stand up in the mornings let along play a Bach Suite -- and certainly not without my morning cup of Joe.
But lately, I have been also using my morning hours (usually 30 to 90 minutes) to do my knitting - along with my coffee, of course. I find that it gets me focused for the day, relaxed, and leaves me with the thought that I have been productive, even before getting to my real work. The hard part is stopping, naturally. But I happen to be fairly disciplined at setting time limits.
So I ask all of you wonderful daily knitters, what time of day do you typically knit, and how does that work for you? Does it help you in any way?
--And here's a morning toast to all you early birds out there who share my proclivity towards a "morning cup of yarn!"
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