Say it Virginia

(Simple Yet Effective Shawl, unblocked but off the needles...)

"For now she need not think about anybody.
She could be herself. And that was what now, she often
felt the need of---to think; well not even to think.
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing,
expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated...
Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was
thus that she felt herself; and this self having
shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures."

From To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927

(Thanks to Melanie Falick, author of Weekend Knitting.)