Kathy Fagan

This is people power. Serious, decentralized, nonviolent. Make a 1-hour appointment with yourself to watch this inspiring video! #resist

Audience of One.

Brisk walk to the gym and brisk walk home … so nice to enjoy temps above freezing and no wind! Sun shining, birds singing. 😃 🌞

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.

This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

Our family cat had a name (Shere Khan) and we kids called him that but dad always called him Mr. Cat. That took over. When the elderly Mr. Cat went to the vet for the final time, my dad (retired Marine colonel) saluted him and said “so long, Old Man”. He loved Mr. Cat.

A navy blue and warm tan triangular shawl in progress. It’s knit from end to end. The right end and the decorative center are complete. The pattern is Tweed Shawlette. (Lovely design, but pattern has errors and no charts, so probably not for beginners.)

Well, the amusing part was fun! Now back to the repetitive part. Imagining a hat go with it will help! (I bought extra yarn for that.) #knitsky #knitting 🧶

ICE buys warehouse in Berks County that could be converted into detention center ICE has purchased a warehouse in Berks County for $87.4 million that could be converted into an immigration detention center, public records showed.

#Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #resist

Just so you know, a concentration camp is in the works for eastern PA.

Sam Wright (@samwright) The mosaic strategy emerges

The system emerges from the participants. If the motivation is human and civil rights for all, then justice emerges. #resistance #democracy

A view from my spot in the long line to check out. There are freezers on my left and snack items on the right.

Howling wind makes it feel like -15F! My favorite farm stand is closed 😭 so I’ve joined everyone doing their Saturday thing at the co-op. It’s kind of festive, actually! 😁 #weather #foodcooperative

Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

H: Halligarth Shawl by Gudrun Johnston in Knit Picks Stroll Tweed, “forest Heather”.

It’s a treat to work with Silk Garden!

The fun thing about Noro is discovering what comes next!

A square of cloth with an autumnal scene of moon and Japanese maple leaves.

A square of cloth showing a young woman reading under a tree. Not technically furoshiki, it’s a bandana from headingprints.com. But really the same, yeah?

Hey friends! Do you love #furoshiki or what? I’m not picky, just love squares of designed cloth that one can use different ways. “Mmmm, pretty! And useful!”

The hat is Noro Silk Garden.

A knitted scarf (Jared Flood’s Noro Striped Scarf), a colorful beret (Audra Beret by Linda G., Fred on Ravelry) and random store-bought gloves that kinda go.

#hand-knits #knitting #knitsky

Hubby and I dressed up (as much as we ever do, I guess) to take the commuter rail into Center City #Philly for dinner to celebrate his birthday. The train was cancelled 😱! So we walked to a local fave. Knitting played a big role in my idea of “dressing up”, lol!

I couldn’t agree more. Haven’t we learned anything in the last 10 years?

The communication effect of the image is far faster and more powerful than the words one types to condemn it. Two different parts of the brain. He *wants* outrage, it makes being rational more difficult.

I think the purge at #WaPo may backfire. That former institution was already wobbling and ready to collapse. True journalists who know their role in a democracy will find each other and find a way. I think it’s already happening. Watch where they go (have gone) and support them.

I believed his assignment is a) punish WaPo per his boss Trump, and b) focus on pushing propaganda in the US per Trump’s boss, Putin.

I had a busy week helping family deal with “stuff”. Not as much knitting as I would like but this is definitely a project that stands up to interruptions, ha ha! Just got home and getting close to the amusing part of the project … 😁 #knitting #knitsky 🧶

Encouraging others to change their minds … nonviolence.

Thank you!

A pair of gray mittens with a cable design on the back.

One partially completed gray mitten worn on a hand to check for size.

Oh gosh, busy week! Here are some mittens for this week’s #showmeyourknits theme of “gray”. These were made for a very good friend. It’s the Sydänmaa Mittens (free on Ravelry!) by Hanna Leväniemi made with Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted. 🧶 #knitting #knitsky

While I agree that it’s the most corrupt administration in American history, we have played a role with our lack of ongoing activism. We have constantly been shocked when they shattered “norms”. We trusted mainstream news sources well after they were corrupted. I include myself. Never again.

We’re told that there’s no verified/ credible/ public evidence against Trump. Yet we are also told there are images of death, physical abuse, injury.

Sounds to me like whoever is at the top has a message for the men whose names are visible. If you don’t toe the line, evidence will be made public.

A good time to support your local food bank, pantry, or free fridge however you can. They might be swamped. 😞

It’s as if the scary unelected man lurking in the shadows behind the president is deliberately directing a reenactment of those days.

Simple things that our body recognizes without words to mean “safe” and “love”!

A 93 year old woman sits at a piano making notes for playing 4-handed piano with a friend.

A snap of part of an end-to-end slip stitch “shawlette”.

One guaranteed way to get my “rest and digest” system going is to listen to my mom practicing piano. I don’t care if it’s scales or whatever! It tells me I’m safe and loved.

Mom has told me that the gentle clicking of my #knitting needles does the same for her. 🥰

#knitting #knitsky 🧶

“It’s not boring.”

A favorite role from a smart & funny woman. Sad to know she’s gone. 😕