Sounds adorable and a worthy project!

A storyboard for a work project for my brother. With customers and employees and of his company as cute animal-people. 

I've taken a vacation to visit with a friend, which made for some exciting adventures, but the shark week finally turned up, and I don't want to do anything. I've walked a LOT these last few days, so the rest is lovely, but I also go home in two days, and feel odd postponing doing things. 🤔 No choice but to rest. 😴

This is a good question. I didn't have any idea what I might get out of a zazen practice until I went, and then I found that I was missing it when I didn't go.  The things I was missing are the answers to the question you asked. I think my answers are very similar to yours: This is a big part of why I am bothering to go. The sense of shared community is a big deal, and I like it very much.  I hadn't thought about it in these terms, specifically, but on my list is a very similar thing: it feels like a discipline, and not only a practice. The group does both of these things, and I had never done them at all before. I feel enriched by them and also feel engaged because it's new-to-me. The opportunity for deeper reflection is really important to me with this group. They sometimes do a buddhist book club, and sometimes host other groups, or have seminars or the like. This feels vibrant, elastic, and seems to have a lot of possibilities, as the Universe sees fit to help us discover.

Appreciate you!      Similar. "The Haunting of Hill House" and "His House" were the two works that convinced me the genre can be more than pointless torture porn. "Haunting of Hill House" you will sob by the ending and I love the work too much to spoil it. Also Hill House is the rare American haunted house story that has the balls to set the piece in the states, with a house flipper trying to manage a massive and cursed mansion. So many American haunted house stories lamely export their story to the UK to trade on American anxieties around class and Catholicism, because obviously all of the British Isles are rich and catholic, right? (Americans aren't good at history) "His House" further deconstructs the idea of spooky catholic rich people with a haunted house story staring Sudanese refugees in the "dispersed accommodation" of London asylum housing. It's is a horror movie with a happy ending, and it elegantly plays with ghosts-as-trauma. Still zero shade if the whole genre is a miss. 

Even if your stitches are a little uneven, blocking will even them out magically*. The rest is a nice pattern, a beautiful yarn, and something that suits you. I will say that highly variegated yarns look fascinating in the skein, but they knit up like technicolour vomit. Happily, ravelry lists yarns and you can search a specific colour and see how it knit up in other people's projects.    *Except with the loose stitches where you change DPNS, or switch out the halves of your magic loop circle. Let me know when you get started and I'll remind you how to avoid it. It will make more sense with the project in your hands.

What are the illustrations of Harriet?   Sending love x

I hope you feel better soon.

Same for today. See you tomorrow (hopefully).

I don't know chestnut mushrooms. What do you do with them?