You Can Go Home Again?

At the Aisling Irish Community Center
in Yonker's New York a revival
is underway.

Enrollment in Irish dance,
art, Gaelic classes is
escalating.

Numbers of young
Irish born couples
are returning home.
Ireland's economy is booming.
Opportunities are optimum.
Their American born children
will have to be Irish school system ready.

For a century and a half
Irish immigrants
have grieved the loss
of home.

Now the latest wave
of Irish immigrants
has the option
of going back.

Mind-boggling!

Will they disprove the famous
Thomas Wolfe injunction
"You can't go home again?"

'Tis all very worrying.
I'll have to jiggle and juggle
all my preconceived notions.

I am one
for tidy rows
and sturdy convictions.

I'll have to track
those American children
of Irish heritage
being reestablished in Ireland.
A new hybrid, one might say.

While I'm on a new path
I think I'll try that twisted
ribbing I've been admiring
in the knitting magazine.

It is pretty straightforward:

Row 1
p2, rt*( k 2 stitches together,
and leave on left-hand needle.
Insert the right-hand needle
between the two stitches
and knit the first stitch again.
Slip both stitches off the
left-hand needle together,) p2,
k 3. Repeat across to last 6 stitches.
p2, rt, k2.

Row 2
(k2,  p2, k2, p3)
repeat to the last six stitches
k2,p2,k2.

Add a new twist to my thinking.