in the jar with the needles….in the evacuation basket        just some of things   that are here,  everywhere.     Was nice to have occasion to look at them.   

to sit with this.   for hours. a photograph messaged from Alyssia during a phone conversation.   We beheld the Moon    together.

and so surprising.    just to be clear.   those words on the envelope….longues……Longs?   ……   they are not at all long.  and again,  until you get used to them,  are awkward          But they make hand work with denim possible.   When i wanted to make this  cover i tried many needles and none…

sewing denim this fine silk thread and these tiny needles….flow through denim like butter.   the needles require enormous   FOCUS  to thread… this silk or a single strand of embroidery thread…..  but as you go,  you get better and better at it.   it also was discipline for small stitches,  which i needed.    I'd never hesitate…

that night i began the blog….made my way through Blogspot  setup   …..needed a name.    typed in    windthread      just because.  i loved wind and i loved thread.                 the thread is on the move. " The Yana have probably been in Northern California for three or…

having been caught unprepared when the temperatures got so cold,  december,  i used what i had for Minnow's bed insulation.  It had been just all folded and doing nothing in the back room.   so now,  is a denim and    literal    mud cloth    futon (less) cover.   Can hang out here for the next…

more toward fence line above  area of Big Meadow.    The time it takes for Earth to form the floor of a Forest.     Years.   Hundreds of them.   Years for the trees to grow,  years for them to mature and fall.   Years to decompose,  be incorporated into the earth beneath.     How many human beings…

for the most part,  this is how it is.   GREEN.    more than ever before.   Many of the grasses i had become familiar with are not so much.   Others are More.   Different wild plants have taken center stage while others that were in profusion are not.    These last days the Goats,  for the first…

its been so long         warm        Sun    pause again       breathe again door open,   only  screen door      only long sleeve cotton shirt.      Only.       Only  SUN.     only pause      only breathe