memory
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 labelled them as invasive, before I knew what terrible invasives there actually are, and pulled […]
all about the hands
…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 and vision. ~ Anna Schuleit (Schuleit is a fine artist who has won acclaim for […]
80 percent
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. But I could feel from the intensity of the needles that my body was still […]
floating
(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. Relaxed. Just held somehow. I feel as if that is what took place for me […]
no dyeing today
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 the ground (I’ve never had a problem growing beets. What’s with this crop?) and I […]
all fall down
“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 I’m still very low energy. Today was the first morning I woke up when I […]
the act of vision
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, “Beauty” Right now the photo above shows a piece of wet cloth on the hill […]
what makes a good day
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 fact, do I want so much? And, it’s easy to think of it in a […]
slo mo
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 zipping up tall with that same speed. I’ve been spending a LOT of time in […]
control
Randy, the guy with the truck (what guy here is not with a truck?) has been promising me for weeks that he would deliver my mulch. I finally texted him: “when?” and it arrived the next day. He apologized; he’d been out working on an island for 3 weeks. So now it’s here. My mulch. […]
