four-day week

[incandescens]

A nice peaceful day. Finished a shawl that I was making for a coworker (same pattern as an earlier one, but different yarns) and then had the very annoying job of darning ends in. I hate darning ends in.

Shawl One - in blue
Shawl Two - in pink and purple

Also had an enjoyable discussion of a future joint writing idea, which should be very neat indeed to work with.

And it's a four-day week. Excellent.

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As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is --
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins