With all my supplies in hand, I finally cast on. And realized immediately that knitting is not optional. It's just not. Because when two kids start irking each other & I need to jump in? There's no better way for us all to calm down then, "We'll talk about this after I finish a few rows of knitting." Or when the contractors delay again, and I begin to feel for the fiftieth time like we'll never use our basement again? I can sit down, focus on the next stitch, and find my first breath. If I can find that first breath, it usually gets easier to find the breaths that come next. And the same for knitting, too. If we can knit that next stitch then the stitch after that, linking them magically together, something else entirely can be created out of them.