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contrivingsToday, Penelope can be found sitting on a park bench with a few skeins of yarn around her, a pair of knitting needles, and a book entitled Knitting 101. Her brow is furrowed as she's trying to make sense of the instructions the book has listed.
After a moment of careful reading, the queen of Ithaca picks up the knitting needles, loops some yarn onto one, and begins to knit. For a first-timer, she's pretty good--it must be all those years of weaving. She's planning on knitting a cloak--for her son, who's just returned from his travels, looking for news of Odysseus.
"What helps you keep your mind occupied?" she asks, after a little while of her just knitting in silence. "I mean, when it wants to worry and fret over things. Because I always seem to need something."
After a moment of careful reading, the queen of Ithaca picks up the knitting needles, loops some yarn onto one, and begins to knit. For a first-timer, she's pretty good--it must be all those years of weaving. She's planning on knitting a cloak--for her son, who's just returned from his travels, looking for news of Odysseus.
"What helps you keep your mind occupied?" she asks, after a little while of her just knitting in silence. "I mean, when it wants to worry and fret over things. Because I always seem to need something."
