To those who cautioned over spending too much energy searching for the cashmere: you were exactly right. I tried and gave out fast. But what leaped out at me was the exact shade of green baby alpaca that I’d known was in there somewhere that would look perfect on the Thai nurse I had two weeks ago, the very skilled and gentle woman who had a dream of writing a book about her experiences as an oncology nurse.
As I looked at that green in delight, green being her favorite color–Kristine, this is the same vivid shade you ordered from Aurora, and this was even already rolled up into a ball, ready to go–I knew the doctor’s shawl could wait but that if I didn’t get to making something for that nurse quickly, it wouldn’t happen. The chance could too easily fade into oblivion.
I barely had the oomph to walk the ball into the next room, so it’s going to take long enough to do. But for a whole lot of reasons, I’d really like to give her a lasting reminder of goodwill and encouragement along her way. I’d told her that if it took twenty years before she got her book written, that was okay; I was looking forward to reading what she had to say.
I don’t know if she’ll get a shawl like I aspire to do or if it’ll be a (more realistically speaking for now) a scarf. But something. Anything.
We’ll see how I do.