Vegetarianniversary!

This Halloween marked my 15th year of being a vegetarian. We celebrated with an Indian feast of Baingan Bharta and Malai Kofta, at the restaurant where we had our first real date. Then at home, we enjoyed cleaning out pumpkin guts and roasting the seeds. I found The Legend of Billy Jack on Netflix streaming video, so we decided on a hippy film, instead of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which we thought would give us nightmares.

I was so excited about Billy Jack, having seen it only once, over 10 years ago. The basic premise of the movie is there is a town in Arizona, near a reservation where there is an alternative school. People from the town are racist and distrustful of the pacifist students and director of the school. When the students go into the town, the townspeople humiliate them and treat them badly. Enter Billy Jack, who knows martial arts, is initiated in sacred Indian rites, is not a pacifist, and cares mostly about the students and preventing corruption in the town. Anyway, Billy Jack makes a mess of the place with his martial arts skills and makes everyone get along. There are two feelings the film leaves you with: (1) I wish I could go to an alternative pacifist school and learn how to weave and ride horses, and (2) I wish I could beat people up like Billy Jack.

Last week, I finished my first sock. The important thing is that it actually fits, and it's totally cute. I started the second sock right away, but have been spending more time beading instead of knitting. The sock took me about two months to finish, so maybe in another two months, I'll have a pair...hopefully sooner.


Lastly, I made a necklace for my friend, which I'm calling "peace dove." It's obviously based on my last creation "peacock." Crazily, I'm trying to think of a way to make a "cockatiel," which would be cool, but not that useful, since I never wear yellow or orange. I've been wearing grey a lot more lately though.


One of my friends has an aunt who does beading. She had made a series of bracelets to be worn together with a monarch butterfly theme. One bracelet was yellow, black, and white, for the larva. The next was all lime green, for the pupa. The next was orange, black, and white, for the butterfly. The last was blue and white, for the sky. It's a clever idea, which I would like to adapt with colors of birds in my current designs.

-吴碧芙