Tag: waiting

Allen Mendenhall: Waiting once meant wonder

What remains of Christmas past is this: the feeling of those weeks, compressed now into something both smaller and larger than they were. How the waiting itself became the thing we waited for. How we rushed toward events that we also wanted never to arrive, because arrival meant ending, and ending meant the long, ordinary months that followed.

Sean of the South: A knitting story

“The first rule of knitting is understanding patience, this takes a lifetime. The rest can be learned in only a few minutes.”