The Southern Thread

Showing Up Anyway

Today was our very first Wool & Wonder Learn to Knit Day. No one came. I won’t pretend that wasn’t disappointing — it’s always a bit disheartening when you put energy into something and it do...

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Thoughts on home and homesickness

I wrote an earlier post about long-term homesickness which was a prevailing feeling I was having earlier in the year. I have since been home to New Zealand for a fairly extended period and conseque...

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Planning a Wool-Focused Trip to New Zealand

The early stages of a slow and purposeful journey In September I’ll be heading to New Zealand — a place close to my heart, and the home of the beautiful wool I work with every winter here in Japan....

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Threaded Between Two Worlds

I recently read a piece on long-term homesickness. It was about more than missing a place — it spoke to missing a version of yourself, of your life, that lives far away now. Not homesick in the t...

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