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  white rose bushes on my daily walk when I could still walk We have been dealing with a national tragedy, and I can’t stop thinking about it.  And how this tragedy is being dealt with here in Canada.  And how the alt right is using our grief to make political points. If you don’t…

  This meme has never resonated so thoroughly as I begin what appears to be the beginning of recovery from what has been making my life miserable for literally years. As with any health issue, it appears to be true that however long it took you to get to ‘bottom’ it takes the same time…

  Yesterday I finished the warp I put into the loom in January.  It doesn’t always happen that I get the knots this close to the heddles, but it is quite satisfying when it happens. Because I never (usually) make just one thing, but several items per warp, and I tend to allow a little…

  It is winter.  We have been getting a fine ‘mist’ of fresh snow.  But that isn’t exactly a ‘pretty’ picture at the minute, so I bring you a memory from my picture folder – the white roses that used to brighten my day every day on my walk through the neighbourhood.  Sadly gone now,…

  It is winter.  We have been getting a fine ‘mist’ of fresh snow.  But that isn’t exactly a ‘pretty’ picture at the minute, so I bring you a memory from my picture folder – the white roses that used to brighten my day every day on my walk through the neighbourhood.  Sadly gone now,…

  You might want to biggify this – the effect is subtle and not really seen.  One might wonder why I bothered, knowing that the effect of the original loom state (See Jan. 14 post) cloth and the now wet finished state would be…I mean, why? Well, I wanted to find out, that’s why.  (And…

  I have managed to get to the loom and pick away at the current warp.  Today I will finish weaving towel #6 on the warp, cut off, re-tie and begin the 2nd third.  It feels painfully slow, but…on I go. Because it doesn’t seem to matter if I weave or not, the pain I…

  I’m in the ‘slog’ part of weaving.  OTOH, since I *enjoy* the weaving part, it’s not actually a ‘hardship’ for me.  It becomes a working meditation, a dopamine dump, an endorphin rush.   Mostly what I’m doing right now is preparing for the next treatment (Wednesday, if anyone cares to send positive energy my way),…

  yellow line represents the divide between the US and Russia This morning I read a post that explained that the current president of the US said that he ‘didn’t want to be neighbours with Russia’. About that… The current president has also said – repeatedly – that he wants to destroy my country economically…

  burn, baby, burn…. One of the most difficult things to do is to explain how you are feeling to someone else when you have no point of commonality. When I tell someone my feet hurt – how can anyone else know what that means?  Hell, I can’t figure it out myself, how can anyone…