{"id":1149,"date":"2005-10-10T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/10\/10\/in-the-middle-was-the-word\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:26:04","slug":"in-the-middle-was-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/10\/10\/in-the-middle-was-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Middle Was the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s pretty clear to me that the books listed in my sidebar cannot compete with the siren song of my newfound love. Knitting and I are united. What is this thing, knitting<\/em>? My hands. Yes, my<\/em> hands. By manipulating yarn in loops around bamboo sticks and guiding progress with my fingers, stitch after stitch and row upon row accumulate. Something substantial emerges. I’m fascinated. I’m also getting tired and making mistakes. The bright side to that is that I’m beginning to understand the stitches and see how to correct mistakes. Fine, but I need a break. Yet the books in queue — at least, the ones that aren’t novels — don’t draw me. So it’s time to put Beyond the Writers’ Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction<\/cite>, The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present<\/cite>, and Soul Collage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups<\/cite> back in the bookcase for another day. Time to sink into some fiction and give the brain a rest from creating new neural pathways. <\/p>\n

Fortunately I acquired several books recently based on reader recommendations. I haven’t given The Master Butcher’s Singing Club<\/a> a fair shake, so I’ll try again. Along with The Boys of My Youth<\/a>, Miriam’s Kitchen<\/a>, and Family Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s pretty clear to me that the books listed in my sidebar cannot compete with the siren song of my newfound love. Knitting and I are united. What is this thing, knitting? My hands. Yes, my hands. By manipulating yarn in loops around bamboo sticks and guiding progress with my fingers, stitch after stitch and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}