Why Endless Knots?

I probably should find a way to put the explanation of this blog's name in a box that stays over on the right somewhere and, when I figure that out...

Until then, why is this blog called Endless Knots?

It began with a short story that I wrote called, yes, "Endless Knots," a version of which is posted here and which I recently submitted to a special issue of Global City Review, a literary journal, whose issue theme is "Knit Together."

I knit. Knitting is the stringing together of beautiful endless knots.

I network. Knotting together people I know, even those I don't, for some strange karma puts the latter in my path, even when I'm not looking. Like when I'm on the train and my seatmate is, nearly invariably, another writer.

And I much love the endless knot symbol of Tibetan Buddhism, one of its "eight auspicious signs."

Some years ago, I decided to knit the endless knot into each sweater, vest, hat, scarf, and other odd garment. The one here is from a vest I knit for a very special friend. And, as I sit here typing this, on a very cold June day in Boston, I'm wearing a sweater with the same symbol knit into the back.

Endless knots. All of us connected, whether we know it, like it, or care about it. We are endlessly knotted together.

Comments

This is why I married you... well, among the Top 10

[jessica lipnack]

let's get the full list :). and i'm hoping this is from "my very special friend."