Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years at Harvard, there has been nothing more disturbingly asinine than the yarn game we were forced to play during prefrosh weekend. Given a ball of garishly colored yarn and an equally garishly colored yarn necklace, we were told to meet as many people as possible, keeping track by tying yarn around the necklace of each new acquaintance...
Ostensibly, the goal was to make a few new friends. But after an hour of eagerly lining up to exchange our name and hometown for technicolor yarn, many of us quickly became nauseous. Friendship, it became clear, was not about introducing yourself to everybody in sight...
...yarn during first-year orientation week, but the spirit of the game lived on. At Annenberg and in the Yard, we mindlessly mixed and mingled until finally, perhaps around November, the game finally ended. Not because it was replaced by a particular aversion to new friendships, but because most of us had settled comfortably into one or more meaningful social circles forged over time...
...tell what for. It was a surprise--it was a really big deal. We had Hostess Cup Cakes for dessert... or Devil Dogs or maybe it was Twinkies. Anyway, they made me gifts--sticks. I got three different painted sticks from my kids. They were even wrapped up in yarn. I used to like it when they made me gifts. If I could have that again, that would be great. I guess I would like a party. I liked it when they did that. I made a big deal about...
...most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives," Twain once wrote. Great yarn spinners are few and far between these days, but one place to find a passel of them is Nevada City, Calif., about 115 miles west of Virginia City. Each summer the old gold-mining town is host to the Sierra Storytelling Festival. "You can put a six-year-old and a 90-year-old together," says founder Steve Sanfield, "and with the right story, they will both feel a deep connection." Tickets for this year's festival (July...