Hello friends!
It’s been a while and hopefully this is the start of more regularly posting. I just moved to a new city (back with my parents), started a new job, and have been extremely stressed out. Between the political climate and the climate-climate it has been hard to find anything to look forward to. AI has been forced on us by people too focused on their own greed and now crappy fake crochet/knit posted are flooding all of my social media platforms.
Living back with my parents is not so bad. At first I was worried that my parents or I would revert to the way things were when I was in high school. Surprisingly this worry has dissipated. The house may look the same from the outside but my parents now have a completely different way of living. It’s difficult to see how much things have changed since I’ve last lived here (13 years ago?!). We now watch a lot more television and each room always has some sort of phone screen on. I miss the genuine human interaction and deep connections. I love my parents very much and this all might just be part of getting older.
Cue the stress knitting. My fingers hurt from the amount of knitting I have been doing:
- Red hats to resist ICE presence
- Chipping away at my daunting WIP pile
- Sweaters that I know I won’t finish because of fear for the sweater curse
- Random commissions
The list goes on and on. Zach piece has a piece of myself in it and helps lessen the growing feel of dis comfort. I just wish there was something more that I could do to help. This anxiety is all consuming and I’m not sure how much more my fingers can take.
I’m sure there must be others out there who feel the same way. What can we do to help??
I will be posting the rough draft of this post to avoid looking anywhere near AI. This post was written 100% by a human, and that is something to be proud of. Hopefully the bar does not continue to fall.
Love you fellow humans, as always please feel free to reach out- I could definitely use the human connection 💕