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despite the distractions, today's 15

The challenges of making right now continue so the cat chronicles continue as well:

She is a wild one and every movement of the hand is an invitation. 

My hands are a wreck at the moment, despite trying to keep her claws trimmed. 

This morning she let me fold paper for a book. That's as far as I got before having to get out the 6 foot strip of canvas I use as a "toy." I drag it across the floor or dangle it in the air, Widget attacks. She runs, she leaps, she somersaults.

Lola watches it like a tennis match.

I wish I got as much exercise...

spotty things

I think this is rock shield lichen.

Something new I've learned from Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is that lichens are a fungal/algal symbiotic relationship. I'm going to be sad when I finish this book but luckily have Gathering Moss to read too.

"When times are easy and there's plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone.  But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward.  In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival. So say the lichens." 

From Braiding Sweetgrass

I'm cleaning up my stash of "fabric for work projects" and am making dinosaur pillows.

More details coming soon.

Coupville, part two -the book

My book holds time, generations, and place...

Family, friends, places I've lived, places my family has lived, and color as memory (redwood cones, indigo, avocado pits, pomegranate, walnut).

A fragment of pattern as a reminder of a baby quilt made by my mother.

A sense of childhood, a sense of place.

Gifts from: Hazel, a bit of Deb Lacativa dyed fabric; fabric from one of my grandmothers, some of the lace my great grandmother made and part of her wedding dress; and from Jude.

Transformation.

There is breath and raindrops (not quite how I intended but maybe better?).

The end but not the end.

There is still room for notes.

The workshop, "Binding Time" by Christine Mauersberger