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yes, nature is providing salve for my soul of late, helping me bring order to the chaos. today was a travel day, and once arrived, phoebe and i went straightaway for a romp outside - she to bury some tasty morsels for future snack attacks and me to nap on a rock in the sun, [...]

sometimes
if we
quietly,
tenaciously
connect the knots,
things
begin to take shape . . .

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it occurs to me today that a mother’s love is like a stream: amorphous water that manages to keep moving regardless. trees become dislodged upstream, rocks float downstream and stop, and the water simply moves around or over or under or sometimes through. never stopping. knowing - in ways that only water can know - [...]

have seen in the past few weeks that some people are like these grasses: soft and graceful when viewed from afar but get close and you find their razor-sharp edges.
today, though, it was time to leave the world of grasses and create a brand new world of my own clothimation:

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it comes upon me periodically, and just this morning it settled over me once again: the desire to be quiet. while doing research for the next day’s lesson plan in fifth grade science class (the teacher was ready to retire, so i just took over the class.), i learned that sounds never truly disappear, they [...]

the pollen is so bad here, that on the few occasions when i venture out, it looks like people all up and down the road are cutting their dirt. the air is so pollen-laden it looks hazy, and it is taking its toll. i have taped up windows, turned off a/c and furnace, bolted the [...]

just a teensy little time to stitch today (so far) and nothing picture worthy as i’m still just stitching, stitching, stitching on what i call the basic, infrastructure level. next stage of unfolding on both works should start soon.
stray thoughts that kept me company today when i shoved the ubiquitous work aside and began stitching [...]

“Of all the Elwell family Aunt Mehetabel was certainly the most unimportant member,” began Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s story called The Bedquilt.
Aunt Mehetabel had never been married, and as the official old maid of the family, she lived with her brother’s family to help take care of the children, clean the house, grow, cook, and preserve [...]

deciding to work with what i have in order to satisfy hands that are restless and itching to get moving (everything still in nc), began work on found crewel piece. no thinking, i said, just selecting, cutting, joining. the why’s, if there are any, will bubble to the surface in their own good time. here’s [...]

my rediscovered crewel piece, created so long, long ago, has been keeping me company the past few days, sitting beside my computer on my old library table (that’s now my creative hub - it belonged to both of my grandmothers before me).
when i was growing up, as they say, my mother worked outside the [...]

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