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Here’s to those of you who woke up at 3 and tried to go back to sleep but gave up at 4 because you just couldn’t shut off your brain. I see you. It’s going to be ok.
This was yesterday. We walked down my neighbor’s path to the pond and listened to the brilliant blue water as it lapped and splashed and sloshed. By this morning, that thin layer of ice you see forming around the edge had marched all the way across the pond, all 26 acres of it. I love how swiftly nature does its business.
Charlotte?
Greetings, esteemed colleagues. May I present to you, in all its glory, 4:32pm.
The last of the milkweed, waiting for the right puff of wind to carry the seeds to their new home.
In the spring of 2016, I discovered a cool new wool shoe online. I ordered a pair, fell in love, and immediately wrote about them in Knitter’s Review. It turns out, this was something like @allbirds second week of operation. Still a small startup, they noticed the sales spike, traced it to me, and wrote me the loveliest email.
Fast-forward a few months, I got to visit them in their first San Francisco office. I met Tim and Joey and Julie and Lucy, all lovely humans. We had sandwiches and they showed me swatches of other fabrics they were looking at, and we talked wool, and it was heaven.
Whelp, today these kids’ little startup launched on the NASDAQ under ‘BIRD,’ with the first trade valuing the company at around $3.04 billion. Not that anyone’s counting.
While they’ve moved well beyond being only “that wool shoe company,” wool is still a core part of their product offerings. The number of people who’ve woken up to wool thanks to Allbirds is almost incalculable.
I realize I’m like the totally obscure elementary school teacher bragging about having had one student, for half a semester, who went on to win a Pulitzer, but so be it. This is a bonkers day, and I’m proud of them.
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In American yarn, few names evoke as much history as "Germantown." While there hasn't been a Germantown yarn in years,
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