Knitting and Coffee

Would anyone like to join me in making January the unofficial “Knit for Charity” month?

I have several friends who work/volunteer at various non-profit organizations, and they’ve told me that their donations really taper off after Christmas because everyone feels that they’ve done their Christmas duty by donating in December. But they need donations year-round, and at least where I live, it gets waaaay colder after December, and warm items are needed from January to April.

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Pattern here:

Less than 24 hours after San Bernardino and 5 days after the Planned Parenthood mass shootings, Senate Republicans voted down legislation that would block suspected terrorists, felons and the mentally ill from buying guns

Senate Republicans voted against barring suspected terrorists, felons and the mentally ill from getting guns on Thursday afternoon, parroting National Rifle Association arguments that doing so would strip some innocent people of their constitutional rights to gun access just a day after yet another massacre on U.S. soil.

A pair of Democratic measures - one to close background check loopholes to make it harder for felons and the mentally ill from buying guns, another to ban those on the terror watch list from buying guns - both went down in flames against near-unanimous GOP opposition.

His name is Sam. And he knits jumpers

And then takes photos 

Of himself in front of the things that inspired them

And he just makes me so happy

Because he has such great talent

And he is everything I want to be in life