Mania: an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession.
Gosh, loan a girl a lucet and there's no telling what will happen. I seem to have developed a mania for drawstrings. But if I'm going to make drawstrings, I have to have something to draw them through. Enter my DPN's and handspun yarn stash.
An audition is a tryout for a role in a movie, orchestra, or play.
Audition is the transduction of sound waves into a neural signal that is made possible by the structures of the ear.
It seems that audition refers to the sense of hearing. But can an audition apply to the sense of sight?
An audition is trying out yarn colors for a new warp.
And shifting gears a bit,
This menorah belonged to my maternal grandparents, then to my parents. Here it is in my kitchen on the eve of the last day of Hanukah this year. As we approach the longest night of the year, I am warmed by the light.