"What does it mean to the body to wear clothes from cloth that has been spun, woven, sewn, and decorated by someone you know? To wear cloth made from fibers that have been grown near one's house. I can recognize the taste of the tomatoes I grow and the tomatoes from my local farmers' market, but I don't have that same experience of localness when I dress...Cloth that is connected to the life cycle through the mythic stories of weaving and dyeing, has a weight and body and presence that is alive with meaning and memory." J. Ruth Gendler from Notes on the Need for Beauty
I've been slowly making my way through this book, 3 or 4 pages at a time. Some books are meant to be read very slowly.