This little blog is still alive, but has moved address!
It might be the weather, which has been very un-spring like up to just a few days ago, but I find myself spending long stretches of time with my hands playing with yarn and it is pretty safe to say that I have developed a severe slight addiction to knitting over this past winter. It's been a growing source of enjoyment for me, to hear the needles clicking, creating patters and textures out of simple string, but it might be getting out of control. I think it's officially 'out of control' if you have to stop your knitting because your hands hurt too much to continue. As I started to tidy up our living room a few days ago, I glanced around and counted nine works in progress. NINE. That's a lot of work in progress. And they are not small projects... a blanket, (well, two really, since I still need to weave in all the ends of this one) a shawl, a bag, hats, a sweater...
It's rainy, and damp. And beautiful. 
Perfect weather to stay indoors, knitting, watching a movie. Or to lose yourself, staring out the window at few sunrays dancing through the big gray clouds. 
Maybe I should be annoyed at this weather, stealing from the those precious few New York spring days, but I can't. It reminds me of summer storms in Verona, and spring days in London, when the air is saturated with moisture, and there is an undeniable feeling of newness, cleanliness and freshness everywhere. 
Thank you for the comments, the emails, the gentle reminder, that you are all out there and that maybe, just maybe, I should pull myself out of my blogging coma and show my face.
I've also been working on sprucing up this little space (and developing a little shop!) and I was using that as an excuse to push back my return to this online universe. But it turns out, I am not that good with html and it is taking me way longer than expected - a whole three months longer - to do what I want to do. And, surprise surpise, it's not done. Yet. So stay tuned for that, sometime soon. Or maybe in 2010.
Last March, my friend Leila and I embarked on a nineteen day long project to mark the annual occurrence of the Bahá’í Fast. It lead to a year long project - Every Morn and Eve - and now, just shy of a year later, here we are again, about to start the Fast once again.
We are both excited to be embarking on the nineteen days project again - a chance to share with all of you our thoughts and photographs during these most special days.
This year, we are adding an additional layer to the project by inviting 19 Bahá’í photographers from around the world to join us - by submitting photographs and thoughts from their daily Fast.
For Bahá’ís, and particularly for me, the Fast is a period of intense reflection - a time to recollect, regroup and gear up for the new year - for the coming of spring for the changing of seasons.
I hope you will come visit over at nineteen days, starting tomorrow.
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