when dogs attack livestock.   Livestock loosley meaning domestic animals that are kept in some kind of fenced area…some of those areas large,  acres,  so the animals have Freedom.   A lot of dogs will enter those areas and CHASE.   become bored and leave.  Some come in an interest in catching.   There is a…

HIGH WINDS last few days and there have been,  many times before,  the immature cones often fall but this is a first.  A pine person….    Grey Pine,  Foothill Pine.  the Hill's pines.  

my daughter,   Jenny,  becomes 50 yrs old this month.    Fifty.  FIFTY.   i'm not much for birthday celebrations after grade school.   But my daughter…..becomes 50.     How to MARK this?    This has been a hard year for us.  She has come into her motherhood and grandmotherhood  Hard.   How to commemorate.    the Macaroni Necklace.…

the seeds that Emrie planted in the little toilet paper roll pots were planted today.   These,  along the ridge behind Tazmeena's grave.   I have never transplanted Sun Flowers before.  Always direct seed.   I was surprised by the LENGTH of their filament roots in those little round toilet paper planters…..LONG already and i hope not too…

the two strips of Toad Egg cloth….a promise of the continuation of Life Cycles

the kantha is finished.   all that is initially here is stitched in place…invisible baste….Jude Hill…..Spirit Cloth.   the eye….given ink.   part of me wishes i hadn't….kept with graphite.  But it's done now.   We will sit together. Temple of Sun and Sky 

Ketanji Brown Jackson Justice.    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.   Justice.   Nominated for  Life.  

Emrie and i did things.   a LOT of things and it was smooth and easy.  She learned how to make my mother's macaroni and cheese.    We saw that seeds Came UP,  their 2 leaves,  things had GROWN,  2 more leaves,    things flowered,  there was fragrance.   A swallowtail butterfly,  a dragonfly,  a hummingbird all…

the Bloom   Lilacs   volunteer tomatoes Garden.   i look for,  find,  and listen to voices from Ukraine.   The people there.  I try to look at how this is sounding different from Syria and Afghanistan .  The aloe,  lilacs and tomatoes make that possible.   They breathe,  rather than speak,  their breath being a language,   they…