New York Times Article on Spinning
I ran across this article from the New York Times on spinning. What surprised me is it's from 2006. What surprised me even more is it portrays the "new" spinners are young, upwardly mobile and hip. It just struck me as very odd. On one hand it's sort of nice to be associated with an "in" thing since there's not much of that happening at my age but on the other I got the impression the writer found it surprising that "modern" women could possibly have an interest in anything so woefully archaic. I mean the article doesn't come right out and say it but you can tell it's written by a total urbanite who was probably shocked to discover milk actually comes from somewhere BEFORE it goes into the carton. It sort of has the "isn't this odd but quaint?" flavor to it. It struck me as being rather funny, given the prestige of the publication and it made me wonder just how far from the origins of things most people really are. I could really expand on that but it would stray pretty far from the subject of fiber so I think maybe I'll stop here, but I encourage you to read the article and ponder this a little, if you have a few thoughts to spare... LOL!!
I agree that we are far most are from understanding where thingscome from. I am a city girl myself, but always enjoyed country things. I have two granddaughters, 3 and 4. They have explained to me that chocolate milkcomes from the brown cows. They are getting a bit of reality this week though. The stray cat I am feeding had kittens. Being a softie, I have taken the kittens and mother in. So the girls get to watch mama take care of the babies. And learn a little animal husbandry along the way.
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Happy Birthday Monica! I know it's got nothing to do with your blog post.
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Happy Birthday, big Sis!!!
Much love always!!!!!
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