Auckland Unitarians

Socks and songs: making and mending in the face of despair


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with Alix Geard

Recorded at Auckland Unitarian Church 19th February 2023

Sometimes you choose a theme for a service and then life throws you complications.

I had planned to take my text today from that most varied and human of sources, the microblogging site Tumblr. Every so often in my craft or philosophy groups some words turn up from the person known on Tumblr as higgsboshark:

FROM <HTTPS://WWW.TUMBLR.COM/HIGGSBOSHARK/179475660451/THE-THING-ABOUT-KNITTING-IS-ITS-MUCH-HARDER-TO>The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.Checkmate, nihilism.

There are several hashtags that follow this. My favourites are #the sock is not a metaphor for anything #it’s just a sock #that’s all it needs to be.

For more information see:-

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/socks-and-songs/


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