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crooked squares

Coming inside from putting the chickens to bed, I was struck by how much I still love my wall of windows. 

How the squares overlap and frame things.

I started piecing some nine squares thinking I might make a beast of some sort, and then thinking no maybe a pillow.  But now I am thinking what if I did at least one square each week.  Someday I would have a blanket of tiny crooked little squares that would be a larger square at the same time. It would be crooked as well.

I have never been interested in perfection.

Field notes:  We've had two days of 60 degree weather this week, at least one of them a record high. Sunshine, clouds, fog, rain and wind.  The earliest of the tulips (Kaufmania) are coming up but I haven't seen any crocus yet.

feild notes and rabbits

Paper is also fragile and is easily transformed...  A form of communication. 

I've been playing with some new origami shapes.  I'm imagining a whole bunch of bunnies turned loose in a feild. 

year of making... a bit of this and that

I'm on day 20 of my year of making challenge.  Some days, given recent events, it's been a challenge to make something.  Those are the days of making cranes or a little doodle. 

And I always feel better after making just a little bit of something. 

Sometimes it's just a matter of reminding myself to just take 10 minutes. 

Thank you everyone for the thoughts and wishes for Briar.  I'm not really sad.  It was time.  I just miss her very much. 

Field notes:  Cold and clear for part of the week.  The man who rides his unicycle to work every morning gave up because it was too slick Thursday morning and got on the bus.  There has also been rain.  And the scent of snow for just an hour or so one day.  More rain on the way tomorrow. 

quiet spaces

Field notes: quiet gray day with mist. A curl up with a good book and a cup of tea day, just let things drift day.  

It's been a quiet week.  I haven't finished listening to the whole conversation yet for the last On Being, but this caught me: 

"Well, I think it's an act of rebellion to be a whole person, right? It's an act of rebellion to show up as your whole self, and especially the parts that are complex, that are unfinished, that are vulnerable." Courtney Martin

Yesterday we said good-bye to Briar Rose.  She will always be in my heart and I remember her with joy.

 

embellish with love

Hazel:  "What you want these?"

Adding a little detail to the fabric box. 

New post up at bee creative cooking.

Feild notes:  Pineapple express (yep that would be wind from the south) with rain. 

a day like a poem

I attached a bell to the gate not to hear comings and goings but because I read somewhere that every time a bell rings a prayer is answered. 

In the woods there is a tree with stripes.

and lichens glow 

and I can stand and know where I belong

so I stitch a basket woven with thoughts to hold process

It too stands, holding a bit of indigo as a place to start.