tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post6966512512652681124..comments2023-07-17T23:10:02.228+10:00Comments on Discombobula: Fifteen Minute FriendshipSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-85531526985314498772009-08-21T01:59:06.013+10:002009-08-21T01:59:06.013+10:00ah suzie--i totally get all of this. the tongue-t...ah suzie--i totally get all of this. the tongue-tied and outgoing. the clamming up. the desire for connection. in fact, i really want to post an entry today because i miss connection with my bloggy friends, but i feel restless, tongue-tied and silent. i have so much to say and nothing at all. hmmm. maybe that's my entry? knitting? not so sure about that one. xoxolucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-37836390705885645662009-08-21T08:32:29.411+10:002009-08-21T08:32:29.411+10:00there's a funky old pub in melb somewhere that...there's a funky old pub in melb somewhere that holds knitting activist parties...I saw a report on TV about it ... looks like a hoot, hosted by two zany ladies and full of interesting people, including men...<br><br>perhaps knitting is like having coffee, or a beer, a social lubricant, something to do with your hands, and a common purpose or shared experience, and the conversation and friendship evolve from there<br><br>perhaps knitting...Kelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-76130914267107421462009-08-23T03:00:37.504+10:002009-08-23T03:00:37.504+10:00Yes, I get the tongue-tied bit as well. In fact I ...Yes, I get the tongue-tied bit as well. In fact I can echo what lucy says word for word.<br><br>Incidentally we're unusually gutsy on London tubes about people not moving. Someone will always call out in a commanding voice "please move along in the middle there". I've even done it myself and I'm the most conflict-averse person you can imagine!Tesshttp://www.anchormast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-90297296662517557272009-08-24T11:16:56.057+10:002009-08-24T11:16:56.057+10:00Lucy - it's sort of heartening to know that ot...Lucy - it's sort of heartening to know that other people get it, even though I *know* that other people get it :) That restless feeling is so uncomfortable, I am feeling it myself today. Mine is strange, it always comes with greater levels of fatigue, which I am feeling around about now. I do not know if it is an emotional or a physical restlessness. I wonder if our restlessness is not too a transitional restlessness, along with what you wrote on your lovely post about your father? I think we underestimate the change we must go through to enter into the next season, and we are coming up to the fall/spring equinox so maybe that's partly it. <br><br>Kel - knitting activist parties, haha. Cute :) I absolutely agree that it is a social lubricant. I feel the need these days for a social lubricant. I'm not *really* sure that knitting is the thing but yes, something undemanding. I do think the way women of other cultures get together to do meaningless chores and make a sort of a party out of it is sadly lacking in our culture.<br><br>Tess - oooh, hooray for you for calling out. I did it once, several months ago, and lo, the people did move. People respond terribly well to an authority-laden voice, but my knees knocked together all the way home that I had done it, haha :) Isn't it funny, that feeling of it being a conflict to ask an entire group of people to do something that they should just bloody well do anyway? It's terribly scary. I spose it's like public speaking :)Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.com