All Purls. No Swine.
Today (May 23) is "Lucky Penny Day." So I'm taking the liberty of reprising a post from more than seven years ago. That one was inspired by a news report of a seventy-seven year old (at the time) Korean immigrant to Canada who picked up coins he found on the street and donated them to… Continue reading Taking Care of the Pennies
The post title is a quote from George Mallory, English Mountaineer, who disappeared--along with his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine--on his attempt to summit Everest in June of 1924, almost three decades before the first confirmed summiting by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and local Himalayan Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953. The debate as to… Continue reading “Because It’s There”