Category: The Intentional Weaver
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…
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One Down…
I use the living room floor as a staging area for my trips. While this is an old photo, my floor will soon look just like this again – or very similar. Some changes have been made. For one thing, the attache case that has traveled with me for literally thousands of miles over the…
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Thoughtful Thought
I have never been one to rush into a decision. Well, hardly ever. So I spent a lot of time thinking about the post I wrote yesterday. Thinking about how much energy I may – or may not – have in the coming years. How most people my age have long ago retired from their…
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Seeking Balance
Yesterday I had a good chat with the nurse practitioner as we seek to find balance in my treatment – sufficient drug to control the cancerous cells, not so much that I have to deal with adverse effects. To that end, I am now on one capsule per day. I am really hoping that this…
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Musings
My life has been a roller coaster for more years than I care to think about. Being a self-employed weaver in the 20th and 21st centuries is…challenging. Then, for the past 10 years, add in serious, potentially life ending health issues (my allergies and whiplash injuries are not exactly life ending, just annoying), well, there…
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Potential
Recently someone asked me when I was going to retire. I told them I am already doing what I love, why would I retire? The fact is, though, that I am seeing the effects of a lifetime of labour. No body resists repetitive motions done pretty much every day forever. So once again, with the…
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Book-ish
I have shown this diagram before but, well, here it is again – as an illustration of how the brain needs to toggle between many factors in order to create whole cloth from individual threads. Recently I learned of a new book by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt on creativity called The Runaway Species. I’ve…
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Plans vs Reality
Stephanie Pollack has brilliantly summed up Life. I am a plan maker, a deadline meet-er. I purposely set up my life with goals I want to obtain, in a time frame that I need to work towards, pretty much daily. Having goals and deadlines gives me the adrenaline I need to get out of bed…
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Soaring
Here I am at the loom having just caught the shuttle. Notice I have ‘caught’ it between my index and middle finger and am using my thumb to brake the bobbin and apply a slight amount of tension to the weft to ensure that it seats well around the outside end, creating a secure and…