Nov 14, 2021 | Color Savvy, Creative Juices, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Studio and Place, Uncategorized
My eyes are always wide open to the beauty in nature all around me but last Friday was overload after my eye exam and dilated eyes! Oh my, even with sunglasses, the bright sunshine & colors brightened my spirits and made me squint. Talk about eyes wide open. In...
Nov 25, 2020 | Fashion as Art, Fiber Wise, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Tactile Art: fiber and forms
I wrote the following little story 5 years ago. It still warms true in my heart each Thanksgiving so I am sharing it once more. I have updated the words and photos to help you enjoy it with more delightful detail. (Previous post: Grateful Harvest 2015) Traditionally,...
Oct 31, 2020 | Creative Juices, Heritage and Healing, Maker and Mentor, Organics
You are going to have to wait for my prose When Not Enough is Enough and Fairy Fashion Mountain Camp for now. I’m wrestling with the value of timing and whether it matters. For now, I think it does. I have been trying to post/communicate with you since...
Jul 18, 2020 | Fiber Wise, Heritage and Healing, Organics, Studio and Place
The word Garden, itself, brings solace. It speaks known pleasure from fullness, sensuous dollops of color, flitting birds, busy butterflies & bees, movement in a breeze, perhaps a welcoming pathway or water sound, earth, grounding, thirsty land or moist...
Jun 10, 2020 | Heritage and Healing, Maker and Mentor
I have been royally fooled, teased and tormented by Time, dressed in the guise of the Pandemic. Or the Pandemic, dressed in the guise of Time. For me, the Pandemic Shelter in Place (SiP) experience has been a masquerade dance with Masks (the very symbol of the...
May 1, 2020 | Heritage and Healing
I am not going to make my self imposed 2020 goal to post a new essay on April month end, but Business is NOT As Usual, so I forgive myself. In fact, it even seems appropriate. I feel many emotions and burdens from the 2020 Pandemic public health and economic crisis...