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#36 pollinate

The bees have been busy at work...

(One of the original photos.)

Meaningful work/Stewardship, these are concepts that are a part of the "curriculum" for children where I work. 

Something I am thinking about today...

 

 

#35 make it visible

It's like finding shapes in clouds...

like the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk.

I looked and the butterfly was there.

Thread and material from Deb Lacativa.

 

It might also be that we find the things we are thinking about...

butterflies are very much on my mind right now.

 

#31 make a change

My handwriting leaves something to be desired so:

"Just had to share an awesome moment that happened Monday.  I got my hair cut for the first time in a year.  I haven't liked having it down while wearing a mask.  One of the children looked at me this morning and said 'Where did that hair come from?' I said with a straight face... "It's always been there.  Just in a pony tail.   Love Deb!"

Still wearing masks with the children and I need to make a few more.

 

#27 see opportunity

So yesterday...around 1 AM the display shelf over the bookshelf I just moved slid down the wall and was caught by the box on top of the bookshelf. A few things fell off the shelf which probably was what woke me up. Nothing broke.

Widget may have been involved but maybe not.

What's funny to me about this is that for quite awhile I had been thinking of moving the display shelf to the kitchen for my coffee cups but then there were second thoughts after having moved the bookshelf.  The two shelves are part of the same set of furniture, from one of my great grandparents. 

It's down now so I am just going to see this as an opportunity, an invitation to move the shelf.

Thinking a lot about the creativity involved in creating environments, the spaces we inhabit. What do we need in them? What do they say about who we are and what we value?

#26 keeping looking

The moon was there to make...

So I did.

This is the "ink" dripped on the paper from my last dye project, doodled on and then picture taken.

There was only a filter added to adjust color.

This other moon was already made, but there are other things to do; like stitch around the edges of each square.

#22 make random marks

 

What it means...how we make meaning. 

Random or not?

I printed this one, the one below, and then took another picture. I've lost track of the layers...

"All the different realms, all the different story realms, and how many — every place, every window, every doorway is an opening to a life — a whole different life, a whole series of stories."

Joy Harjo (On Being Interview)

 

#21 division

 

The tiny moons are from Glennis (Shibori Girl Studios)

I've had them for a long time.

#20 remember

 

Remembering two beloved authors/illustrators: Eric Carle and Lois Ehlert. 

#17 say something

 

I wanted to put speech bubbles with these but didn't get there...

and then for some reason the Talking Heads "Once in a Life Time came to mind."

The moon is a threadcrumb.

 

#11 organize something

It's like a puzzle... finding the right combination of layers, adjusting settings and filters. 

There is comfort in the organizing,

comfort in something that can be controlled.