On being today.    "Joy takes a  place….on hard edges of life and life together.  Whatever is before us,  we must insist on joy wherever and whenever we can find it,  must honor creaturely release and comfort and delights,  for these are our human birthright of fuel for persisting, for orienting insistently towards what is…

i don't know if  it's the Internet…which would be Verizon or Typepad   OR  both?    but Ok.   No te rindas,   right?     We have this much. the Therapy Group.   This meeting at the Well….. East coast US    1pm West coast US   10am Europe   7 pm Saturdays,  which allows for those who work. Be sure…

   all i was intending to do was to stitch  down the Worm.   It went from there.   Of its own accord.   It wanted to Honor Worms and their Joy.   but began with those two plain scraps,  tho one was of Deb Lacativa,  but a pale Deb Lacativa  with a thrift store scrap of a cotton…

my Magic Diaries Cloth.   It was surprisingly small,  folded.  Heavy but small.   it's about 6ft X 3ft something. incredibly faded.   i'd not remembered it this way.   I dyed this raw silk  or silk noil  in Glennis' Colorhue workshop.  Was a wonderFull   pale payne's  grey/slate blue.   Then,   Ten years on the wall of the Room in…

just in the last couple days i got emails from Maria in Belgium and Tina,  both the most Loving Hearts possible:   They cannot comment here anymore.   This is so sad to me.   We are all so much more when All of Us are present….and i know how it feels to want to be present and…

i can't remember a moment that was as physically,  emotionally and of Spirit   exhausting.    as i said…it began at 11 am with some thread of mucus.   She didn't go with the Herd when they set out for the morning,  but stood in the road and called softly off into the Forest.   She then went…

i'd thought the rhubarb didn't make it.   I couldn't see the ID thingy anywhere and neither the little plant.   All through the months since September.   But today….the ID was turned sideways,  just a thin line of it under some overgrown grasses.  Rhubarb.   There are 3 of these,  maybe a few inches over a foot…

had a multimillion dollar camera.  Had,  laughing,  the best of the Typepad applications instead of middle of the road….  I would show you this one Leaf in a zillion different poses,  the slant of light,  different times of day,  near a Rock,  amidst twigs,  in a child's hand and on and on.  Just this one…

a prayer to let go of unnecessary grief   (unfinished)   $20   the news of the world is weighing me down.   Life is So SIMPLE   How can all this be happening?????? I need to make Cloths.  to remain sane,  to comfort myself,  to keep showing myself how things REALLY are,  to tell my story.  I make…