Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.