Category: Stories from the Matrix
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Winter -> Summer
Summer colours Seems we have jumped almost entirely over spring into summer. The forecast for next week is temps in the 20s (70s for those still not using metric measures) and yet this morning the furnace is running. We have a few weeks of ‘spring’ in which we need the furnace at night, the…
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40 Plus Years
Someone posted today that they were going to do something that made them anxious but they were going to do it anyway. Then asked if ‘you’ were doing something that made ‘you’ anxious today? Happens that I read that post right after making an appointment to meet with my editor at 11 am. As…
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Straight Talk
One more essay. One of the things about doing these essays is that I am being fairly blunt about what I do and why I do it. I’m sure that my opinions will not align with the opinions of others. I’ve always been on the perimeter of the weaving community, pretty much from day…
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#5
#5 This design may not look very different from a previous iteration, but it has some changes that make it different when seen side by side. #3 This may not look like a huge difference, but I am going slowly with the changes I am making and the small changes made to the threading…
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It Depends
Yesterday I got some pressing done and in the end, I’m quite pleased with the new direction I have been heading. I have to also say I am having So Much Fun writing the essays. I had one planned for today, then came across a comment that set me thinking about how that observation…
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It Depends
Yesterday I got some pressing done and in the end, I’m quite pleased with the new direction I have been heading. I have to also say I am having So Much Fun writing the essays. I had one planned for today, then came across a comment that set me thinking about how that observation…
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It Depends
Yesterday I got some pressing done and in the end, I’m quite pleased with the new direction I have been heading. I have to also say I am having So Much Fun writing the essays. I had one planned for today, then came across a comment that set me thinking about how that observation…
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Begin As You Mean To Go On
Now that I have made the decision to write a book of essays, I had to think about when I needed to do that. Because my energy wanes by the end of the day and when I have brain fog most of the time, I have to write when the fog is the lightest,…
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Setting the Tone
If it were ‘easy’ everyone would be doing it… This morning I re-wrote my ‘introduction’ to the collection of essays I am thinking of writing and sent it off to a friend for some feedback. This is always a perilous time for a writer. Have I hit the right note? Have I selected a…