warm socks

[dragonlady7]

indeed a very great luxury to have handknit socks, tw grief, about the author

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so the thing about the warm socks Farmkid drew for Grandpa, is that it provides a good little illustrative anecdote of his life, I think.

In recent years (since my mother retired, about 2009 i think), my father accounted himself among the most fortunate of men, for he had reached a position in life where, if he did not want to, he never ever had to wear machine-made socks.

Because his beloved wife, my mother, is such an accomplished knitter that she always has two projects going, and at all times, she has one major complex project (a sweater or shawl) that she works on only when she has the leisure to focus, and always a secondary project she can do while traveling or talking or watching TV, and that secondary project? Is always a pair of socks.

Approximately every other pair of socks she knit was for my father, and it had gotten to the point some number of years back that he no longer had to save them up to wear on special occasions. He had enough pairs that he could wear a different pair of hand-knit wool socks every single day.

So he did, with great pleasure, and considered it a life of great luxury, regardless of what else was going on at the time. (Your picture was not posted)

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[freckles_and_doubt]

I am so, so sorry to hear about your dad, it's an awful thing to happen in this truly awful year. Your processes of grieving, and the way you recount anecdotes about your dad, are very similar to mine, even to the socks - I am still comforted by wearing my dad's old army socks, it's amazing how personal a moment they can provide. I am wishing you and your family all possible strength and consolation.

[dragonlady7]

Thanks. Mom didn't want anyone to change Christmas plans, and i respect that because it would have changed hers and she'd've been stressed-out by that, so I'm still hunkered in place and I desperately wish I were there, partly because it doesn't feel real yet and it's kind of agonizing, but it's also kind of easier because it's not real yet, y'know? Anyway shit's complicated. And I definitely extra-appreciate my lovely Internet buddies being here for me, LOL.