Weaving

"I Have a Beaver Problem . . ." This was the statement that my husband made to the very suspicious dispatcher at our local animal control center as I was unhelpfully and immaturely giggling helplessly in the background. But we did!

I had a lot of time to think on my drive to and from Memphis recently (over 40 hours on the road by myself - I knew I had gone a little loopy when I heard this sentence from my audiobook, "she

My husband has (once again) supplied me with my blog title. . .   I have received some recent input from a couple of young relatives in the realm of my social media presence (such as it is) to the

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” Vincent van Gogh In an (recently) unprecedented period of calm, I have been able to get 5 of my looms warped, and a couple of blankets woven.  One

I recently returned from teaching at the John C Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and nothing could be finer then to be in Carolina at the folk school! The Folk School offers instructors a class as part of the compensation

Since my last post I have been busy, but who hasn't?  I am tired of busy!  "Busy" can contain, engagement, curiosity, creativity, fellowship, community as well as worry, toil, and grind, but we always seem to condense it into "busy". 

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike . . . we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck I just got home from a weaving journey to the midwest, and Steinbeck resonates!  The trip took

“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.” ~Junot Diaz "I'm late / I'm late / For a very important date. / No time to say "Hello,

"I hate my interests" is a quote from the movie Ghost World that entered our family's vocab years ago, and I was definitely in an "I Hate my Interests" slump before the holidays. I think it was because I had been teaching a lot