Your prompt for JusJoJan January 10th, 2025 is “echo.” Use it any way you’d like. Thank you, Dan for the prompt! Please be sure to visit Dan’s blog. Enjoy!

Let’s try an echo from the past. It is Friday. So how about Finishing Friday? Best I could do on short notice.

So, smiling turtle is coming along. The bottom is almost done.
These slipper socks were supposed to be for my son, but I found they fit me instead.
They are comfy!
Just as I was going to restart my son’s sox, but my brother, who lives with us, asked for a pair. So I’ll make his first. They are coming along.
I’m trying to teach myself to improvise and play something more modern than classical. Modern beats are hard for me. I’ll get there.

For a while, I had to do very little as the bottom two knuckles of my left thumb started hurting. It went up my arm, all the joints and into the scapula. So all knitting, crocheting, even violin, and ukulele had to stop.  Even the piano hurt when I’d hit notes too hard on the side of the thumb. It made me so sad.

Luckily, it is getting better. But I’m still giving the crochet and the strings a break. Meanwhile, I’m trying morning bed yoga and include hand, arms, and shoulder stretches. That is helping the sciatica stabs, too.

Back to the prompt. I wish I could go somewhere to hear an echo. Somewhere so in Nature and isolated that a whisper would repeat back. It is such a great sensation to live through. I’ve been in caves that had that kind of sound. And the acoustics were so great that when my mom and I sang out it sounded like the most beautiful sound ever.