Unraveled Wednesday: 5/18/22

I'm joining Kat and fellow Unravelers for Unraveled Wednesday, with one final photo of my Antler cardigan (at least until next fall when I get it out of storage to wear to the NJ Sheep & Wool Show). 

The photo session didn't start out very well. I asked John to take a few photos, and technology isn't his thing (even though all I wanted was a few pictures with my phone). 

I was slightly disgruntled at the photographer, not the sweater. But here are a few other pictures where I look slightly happier.

It fits reasonably well, I love the buttons, and I'm happy with the sweater overall. Because I sort of fiddled with the sizing by using DK instead of worsted, I'm very pleasantly surprised. Maybe I'll even knit another sweater before three more decades elapse, but for the immediate future, it's back to Hitchhikers. 

I listened to Island of the Blue Dolphins after Kat's Museum of Me post last week and it was as wonderful as she proclaimed. My only regret is that I somehow missed reading this as a young girl. I read another book this week, a pre-publication copy of All the Living and the Dead. The book may not be for everyone, but I loved it. The author wrote the book because she wondered how people who have made death their work manage it on a daily basis. “If the reason we’re outsourcing this burden is because it’s too much for us, how do they deal with it?”

Hayley Campbell interviews many different people associated with death - a funeral director, the director of anatomical services at Mayo Clinic, an embalmer, a crime scene cleaner, a death mask maker, an executioner, anatomic pathology technologist, bereavement midwife, gravediggers, crematorium operator, and even people at a cryonics institute. I learned that there are many more people involved with death than I ever thought, and with their varied viewpoints, I also learned that it's far more than just a job to many of them. The care and respect they feel and show in their work is evident, even if it's work that most people will never see and may not be appreciated. 

What are you making and reading this week?