zippity do dah

that is such a great song!

i'm about to head out to athens state university to enjoy part two of my fiddlers' convention experience.  let me just say...i'm gonna say...erg, i can't!  i can't find the right words to justify how wonderful it is...last night, there were hundreds and hundreds of people. and children. and lawn chairs. and instruments!  beautiful instruments!  this convention has contestants.  and it's so lovely!  but ANYONE can just walk in, instrument and musical talent in hand, and just PLAY anywhere!  no stage or competition needed!  there are random, amoeba-like jam sessions everywhere!  you walk here, jam a sec, and walk ten feet over here and just melge in with them!!  (melge:  kind of like merge and gel, i think.  i think i'm going to publish my own dictionary.)  one little session i particularly enjoyed was the one with q-tipped old ladies and the young, long haired, metallica-shirt-and-black-laced-boots guy...how fascinating to watch these strangers completely bond and harmonize and produce something so enjoyable ON THE SPOT.  and then there is a shake of hands, and they walk away!  there was the old man (my friend thinks 70s, i say at least mid-80s) who was tearin' up his instrument...and a man with a huge bass with camo on the back!  ah!  why there's not more jammin' and mergin' and lovin' and simple joy around, i do not know.  i just know that in my life...it IS the life.  now i gotta find me an instrument.  :)

i am dusting off my knitting needles today!  i didn't MEAN to put it down...but when i moved, and as i STILL move in (i might just give in to y'all who say it's a lost cause...), i seem to find other things to do with my time at night.  like pay bills.  or cut coupons.  (i fell asleep the other night sitting straight up, on the couch, coupons in hand.  and a bunch more SCATTERED on the floor!)  but there's something about the snap of a cold evening...it's the pied-piper call, leading me to grab my needles and PLAY!!
i can knit.  yes.  a bit.  but i do NOT know all the different ways and methods.  (and i don't know how to figure it out since i taught myself to knit...but i did so by putting a mirror up to watch a video on the computer since i am left-handed.  so guess what?  i discovered that i knit mirror-image!!  the expert knitter told me i was the third or fourth she had ever met in her 30+ years of knitting.  of COURSE.)
i had wanted to learn how to knit.  and i picked up the knit stitch.  but that's all i do in the couple of years i've been doing it.  but i had NO idea how THERAPEUTIC it is for me to knit!  it allows me to sit STILL (imagine!) but have something mindless to do to burn the energy my brain is producing.  i try and try to figure out life...but i can't seem to just let life happen to me..and yet, i know i SHOULD, because it's in the surprises that just happen, that i don't anticipate, where the jewels of joy for me are found!

and guess what...blogging is yet another way for me to release the pressure of my mind.  :)  thanks for being part of it.  <3  happy october saturday to you, and may a jewel of joy be found in it somewhere!