Knitting Thoughts

Overwhelm, grief, and joy in a rainbow scarf

I started this scarf a month ago, when I bought the ticket to join my mom and sister in Germany. My favorite aunt, Tante Leni, is dying. She’s six years older than Mom, and when her husband of nearly sixty years, my Onkel Wilfred, died in August, she said she was done too. Mom talked her out of actively dying then, but last month it became clear that sh…