Episode 9 Interview with Michelle Obama's...book!
"In all my decades of staying busy, I had always presumed that my head was fully in charge of everything, including telling my hands what to do. It hadn't ever really occurred to me to let things flow the opposite way. But that's what knitting did. It reversed the flow. It buckled my churning brain into the back seat and allowed my hands to drive the car for a while. It detoured me away from my anxiety, just enough to provide some relief. Any time I picked up those needles, I'd feel the rearrangement, my fingers doing the work, my mind trailing behind." Page 34 of The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama.
"What's perhaps strange to say is that I'm not sure I would have gotten there without the period of enforced stillness and the steadiness I found inside of knitting. I'd had to go small in order to think big again. Shaken by the enormity of everything that was happening, I'd needed my hands to reintroduce me to what was good, simple, and accomplishable. And that turned out to be a lot." Page 36 of The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
For this episode, Bootie and Bossy interviewed Michelle Obama's...book, The Light We Carry The entire first chapter is devoted to knitting and how learning to knit helped Michelle get through the pandemic. Michelle speaks openly and honestly about parenting (we really appreciated her honestly about the less than stellar parenting moments), marriage, overcoming fear, and remaining positive during the most trying of times. Even if we wouldn't be invited to Michelle's "retreats" with no alcohol, no dessert and lots of rigorous exercise, we still love you, Michelle!
Bootie's copy of Vogue Knitting with Michelle Obama on the cover!
Bootie's prayer shawl that kept her company while watching her son play soccer many years ago. The yarn was James Brett Marble Chunky.
Two of Bootie's favorite parenting books: How to Talk so your kids will Listen and Listen so your Kids will Talk and Siblings without Rivalry both by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
And whatever you do, don’t knit like my sister!
