when i move the XLG bags of scraps back and forth from table bench across from me to the bed…when Alyssia is coming,   they change places…whose on top…..but one bag has somehow been on top for a while now and these particular scraps have been looking at me.   Today i took them out.   They are…

  it's a difficult Cloth to photograph…for some reason.   Everything has become everything…?   The ground is an extraordinary old wornsoft cotton with the vaguest of vague marks of walnut dye.   The back an oh so thin muslin that's hard to find anymore.   Arm/wings  Deb Lacativa as is the body.   all,  seeming from sometime in the…

Inktense.  Just a little at a time

Several trees fell in the two Great Storms.   Old ones,  parts of sprawling ones.   Fire mitigation….cut and remove this fire fuel.  Everyone came.   Jeff is the designated chain  saw person.   He did well.   All four kids were here.  They did well learning how to be independently occupied….on their own,  with each other.   Jenny was very…

Sun rose in the shell bowl   for Thay.  i will find the beauty that i had imagined

the time began by looking at a pic my son sent.   My mother.  Father.   His father's mother.   Holding my daughter Jenny as a newborn.    I say these descriptors to her.   She looks.  Long.   Asks….They are dead?   yes.  except New Nana,  your grandmother,  the baby.   She points to the 3 others…This one?    yes.  dead. …

looking for the fingernail clipper…in this box to my left along with a little stapler,  AAA batteries,  tweezers,  lots of stray small papers,  pens,  the pencil sharpener  etc,   these rubberbanded index cards that have things not to forget,  a lot still blank….i go to this box for something every couple days or so today i…

and i know i am always Exclaiming about things…using those words…Brilliant, Stellar, Extraordinary, Beauty FULL,  Unbelievable and on and on.   It's how i talk.   Because it's how i FEEL,  experience things….in bursts of Happiness,  Delight. But today….how can i tell it?   How can i impart the profound FEELING i had upon the appearance of………………THESE. i…

my catalog had not come but Just In The Nick of Time…Lace Lady had sent me hers and it arrived and also an Email from Baker Creek: For 24 hours   Noon CST January 25 to Noon January 26    Baker Creek will donate 100% of all seed orders to World Help to provide humanitarian aid…

swing and chair share intimate conversation  as  little stool and bells listen