For Angelika

“True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.” CS Lewis

For Fr Brendan Murphy SDB

"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter:he that has found one has found a treasure.There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend,and no scales can measure his excellence.A faithful friend is an elixir of life" Sirach 6.7-17

For David

"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."

For Valmai

"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For Hamish

"Set me as a seal upon your arm, as a seal upon your heart. For love is as strong as death; its passion as fierce as the grave" (Song of Songs 8:6).

For Adrian

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

Thomas Carlyle

Spiel

Here is a blurb about yarn bombers I found on the net by Keith Lyons (http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/yarn-bombing-a-christmas-treat/)
# We anonymously promote knitting as adventure. # We aim to soften the edges of an otherwise cruel harsh environment. # We juxtapose vandalism with the non-threatening nature of knitting. # We aim to readdress the nature of graffiti with a nonpermanent, nondestructive cosy medium. # If you don’t like it just unpick it. # We are a non-discriminating collective. # We aim to recruit members to tag on an international scale. # Actively contributing to a more positive type of global warming. The manifesto concludes with the questions “Do you have too much responsibility in your life? Do you yearn for something pointless?” The manifesto suggests that if the answer is ‘yes’ then join the movement and become an outlaw knitter. Some guerilla knitting appeared near my office at the University of Canberra and my response was in harmony with Mandy and Leanne’s introductory chapter: Yarn bombing can be political, it can be heart-warming, and it can be funny, Most of all, yarn graffiti is unexpected, and it resonates with almost everyone who encounters it.

For Lauren

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.-- Helen Keller

For Mark

In Australian Aboriginal languages of the top end, Bunji can either mean friend or brother - in - law.

My Bunji is both, and I have no idea how he has put up with me all these years - the mans a saint.

I trust him. I love him.

For Dad and Simmone

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold

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The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega

Inaugural Tag - For Mum

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh