Could Peaches be any closer to that fan??? It’s hot. It’s suuuuummmmer. Amanda was asking me yesterday where my horse art was – (she’s only seen me knitting in the last few days – wool no less). I told her…

…technology is taking over so many aspects of our lives that I think there’s a need for a small tribe of makers to keep up the low-tech and the hand-made. Man-made… always catches my attention. Direct traces of people’s hands…

The raspberries are coming ripe. So good. So few. When I was making my first decisions about this garden, years ago, there was an abundance of raspberries. They were so happy they wanted to take over the whole area. I…

80 percent: how good my inner ear is now. That’s what my dear acupuncturist told me. I’ve gotten so accustomed to this not-quite- centered feeling that I didn’t know how to answer when she initially asked how I was doing.…

It’s been a while. I stretched the silk on the frame, all ready to dye the strips that would “frame” those horses – finally finish the piece. But then… I was up in the garden, pushing more beet seeds into…

(heron flying away) When I was a child, I had recurring dreams of falling. I’d fall off a cliff. And then float. I might be scared to fall, but then once I was in the air, I was at ease.…

“Ring around the rosies….All fall down.” Oh for nursery rhymes… But yes, last Wednesday I “all fall down”. I ended up spending the day in the ER because I had collapsed from dehydration. It’s how many days later (?) and…

The human gaze is not the closed, fixed view of a camera but is creative and constructive. Both the gaze that sees and the object that is seen construct themselves simultaneously in the one act of vision. ~ John O’Donohue,…

I was reading an article about how the internet breeds impatience. We get answers so fast; we get orders so quickly; we expect results NOW. I swear, the weeds in my garden must be linked up: they seem to be…

At different times, I think about what I might consider to be the, well – the ideal day. I think of this when my days are less than ideal, and I want that other image for reference – what, in…