Listening to the snow melt...
Wow-
it's March!
How are you doing?
it's March!
How are you doing?
Me--I am well,
(how happifying is that?)
And the snow is melting!
(how happifying is that?)
And the snow is melting!
It's amazing to be back here--
familiar and strange
at the same time.
familiar and strange
at the same time.
I mean
after three months
there is so much to say,
and also, nothing at all.
after three months
there is so much to say,
and also, nothing at all.
For while listening
to other people express essential ideas
with perfection and beauty--
to other people express essential ideas
with perfection and beauty--
Bone; Hand Woven Tapestry; 3" x 4.75"; warp--wool; weft--hand twisted milkweed, used coffee filters (paper yarn); indigo; 2020
--I've been spending my days
with one word at a time.
with one word at a time.
Four Selvedge Tapestry--so much easier to unwind the supplementary warp when you can spread it all the way across the room!
I mean--
quag.
Isn't it lovely?
What a thing
to get to balance
(or try at any rate)
on its delicious
q-centric
syllable.
quag.
Isn't it lovely?
What a thing
to get to balance
(or try at any rate)
on its delicious
q-centric
syllable.
And really,
does a person really need
entire sentences?
does a person really need
entire sentences?
Even my inner Storymaker
has been mostly OK with it.
She is all about words to be sure,
usually ready to cram in
as many as she can
(Verbs!!! Adjectives!!!!!
Parenthetical Asides!!!!),
but it turns out
that reading dictionaries
studying etymology,
and debating the merits
of this word
or that
is wildly entertaining.
(OMG--a double ff-- YES!)
Almost as satisfying
as having chopped
the ice dams
off the roof.
has been mostly OK with it.
She is all about words to be sure,
usually ready to cram in
as many as she can
(Verbs!!! Adjectives!!!!!
Parenthetical Asides!!!!),
but it turns out
that reading dictionaries
studying etymology,
and debating the merits
of this word
or that
is wildly entertaining.
(OMG--a double ff-- YES!)
Almost as satisfying
as having chopped
the ice dams
off the roof.
Now it could be
that writing this essay
back in December
for my friend Debbie Lee's
monthly blog: Witness Wilderness,
was all the Storymaker needed.
that writing this essay
back in December
for my friend Debbie Lee's
monthly blog: Witness Wilderness,
was all the Storymaker needed.
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Or maybe she has just been biding her time,
waiting for the thaw
while the Luminist blissed out
on quiet(ish) winter days.
waiting for the thaw
while the Luminist blissed out
on quiet(ish) winter days.
Either way,
we're decidedly out of shape
for this blogging biz
and it might take a while
to fully emerge
from our wintry ways.
we're decidedly out of shape
for this blogging biz
and it might take a while
to fully emerge
from our wintry ways.
Though I suppose that is
what spring is all about, eh?
what spring is all about, eh?
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