Do you think Knit Picks would want to use this for their next catalog???

fair and square

I haven’t told my mom that I borrowed this permanently from the bookshelf in my parents’ basement.  Oh, what a find!!  1980s German needlepoint pattern goodness.

Don’t hate me.  I stole it fair and square.

Perspective

Thank you, Notes From the Frugal Trenches.  I hadn’t realized how much I had gotten off track, how much I had started to forget the things that mattered to me, how much I was letting the world tell me what I needed and what I “deserved.”  I could be really ashamed or I could live in the fresh mercies of the morning and snap back to reality.

I’ve seen this photo, but never knew the story behind it.  This child was allegedly crawling to a United Nations food camp.  Apparently no one knows what happened to the child after the photograph was taken by Kevin Carter, who committed suicide shortly after his trip to the Sudan.

Please read this.  Please watch the video.  And don’t get caught up in the statistics and over analyze why this happens and what that means and how we as Americans shouldn’t feel guilty for being the “haves.”  It is what it is – this happens every day.  Real people live and die like this as we go to work, play with our kids, and read our blogs.