"Holes for the soul..."

 I am rereading _Stretching Lessons_

by Sue Bender.

Stretching is my theme

for the new year. Well,

not really, let's say for

January.

Today I read Bender's essay about the

famous poet, potter, and philosopher,

MC Richards, author of _Centering

In Pottery, Poetry, And The Person_.

Can't claim familial relation to

this famous lady, I regret to say.

Anyway.

MC  was a friend of Benders.

In Richards later years in a period

of declining health she took

up knitting.

She gifted SB with a long

white knitted scarf.

Still a novice knitter she enclosed a

note with the scarf: "There are a few

holes I didn't intend--pure poetry.

My knitting mentor says they

are invented stitches.

Oh well!"

Holes for the soul to travel in and out of,

Bender suggests.

And says that she wears

the scarf when she wishes 

to feel Richards' spirit.

Today when I knit

I shall leave spaces for my soul.