Waterwoman Knits

Each January I meditate on a word for the year and rarely broadcast it. For 2025 the word that dropped in was medicine.

As medicine comes in many forms, I share two poems of mine and a podcast episode where I wander the woods, ramble about gratitude, show my hat samples, and offer tidbits for these times.

Darkroom

Open heart’s door as you are able,
No more, no less often than you care.
The world is a mighty storm.
Welcome it as you would any beggar, any refugee.
Leave the world a better place for you in it.
Hear it, embrace it, witness it.
Practice cracking the door a minute, an hour, a day,
So the faces of your darkroom guests are illuminated
Without destroying the film.

(For those born in digital image era, photos from camera film needed to be developed in darkrooms because exposure to light would destroy the image.)

Reflection

How surface tension holds the weight of the world
I will never know.
A heart resides submerged,
the reflection’s underside its ceiling
never fully exposed to light of day.
On the verge of drowning, the heart floats,
finds safety in leaving the body to ride
wind, trees, clouds and rain.
Freed from its moorings and misunderstandings,
the heart encounters a moss carpet, wild strawberries,
fir tree guardians,
drawing a mirage to guide it home.

~ Erin Waterman

Knit-A-Thon

Want to help make a difference for those in need? Join the Waterwoman Knits Team for this year’s Knit For Food Knit-a-Thon #knitforfood. Click on the image below to be taken to information about the event and you can search for my team name to join.

Alternatively, feel free to reach out by the contact page here and let me know what your fundraising goal is, what you’re knitting, or donate if you are unable to attend. Each of the four years I’ve participated, I’ve managed to raise a few hundred and would love to combine efforts with others. Small donations add up! The group has been wildly successful, raising over $1 million with 100% given to the four organizations listed.

February’s Soup Luck Recipe

Each month I host a Soup-Luck where I make a giant pot of vegan soup and ask guests to bring something small and not soup to feed 3 others. It’s been a wonderful way to strengthen community and experience something healthy in these stressful times.

Green Soup With Crispy (Lemon) Tofu

Happy Bits

Yay, a new season of Alone is out on Netflix! This time in Tasmania. For those unfamiliar, ten people from different backgrounds are dropped off in a remote location alone with a GoPro for filming their experience and ten survival items of their choice. It’s one of my favorite shows because if I learned some basic survival skills, I share the attributes of doing alone very well, loving to be in wilderness, and also carrying extra weight, which becomes a benefit in survival. Plus, I could knit a fishing net! 😁

Next book I want to read that 3 people have recommended is The Overstory. My parents said they thought of me immediately since I LOVE  🌳 🌲.