Winter weekend mornings call for a nice, hearty breakfast. Something like this together with a big cup of creamy coffee. The cat usually comes and sniffs at that with mild interest, like a cat. Then she declines, not showing any disappointment. I’m not bothered with her lack of Greek manners; I prefer to drink all my coffee myself.
Winter weekend mornings are a mystery of sorts. You go to bed the previous night feeling cold and miserable, the sun having performed its disappearing act far too many hours ago. You think it will be cold and miserable when you open the drapes in the morning too. You think the sun will never come up again for any extended amount of time, what a coward! Probably it will rain and the sky will be grey without clouds, just a mass of moisture fencing Earth.
You go to bed planning a day of knitting on the sofa. You have the right kind of sofa for that, soft, dark brown, with big lush cushions and wide armrests to lay your crafting things on. You can make it out so that it’s like an ample-spaced cocoon that looks out the window to the grey sky, perfect for sitting and knitting all day.
Some mornings it pans out like that. You’re not bored, not a bit, to stay in all day. Besides yarn and thread and beads, there is tea, biscuits maybe, music and (oh blessed days!) company too if you’re lucky. Rumor has it that you have it made.
On other days, you feel the pang. It comes from a kind of sickness that all humans are afflicted with, a reminder of human limitation. When it hits them, they usually don’t know what the matter is, it’s a sneaky disease and few are acquainted with its smell of abandoned time and withered possibilities.
It hits me, this sickness, on winter sunny mornings, standing by the glass doors with my toes on the part of the floor that is hit by the sun and with my yarn trailing behind me. I want to make the sun stand still, but he’s a coward, he runs and runs, I want to feel the wind on my face and I want to dive into my cocoon and I want to move my cocoon up the clouds, into the stratosphere.
What a nice place for sitting and knitting the stratosphere must be.