Home Making
Making a home is about telling a series of stories. Creating little vignettes like, “The travel mugs should go on this shelf here next to the sink, where you can easily grab one and go” and “I want that painting hung here, where I can see it when I’m working, and that other one over [...]
Weighty matters
First, hat tip to Ragen at “Dances with Fat” for reminding me to separate shame and judgement from my body’s current shape and size. She advocates the Health at Every Size philosophy. I tripped over her blog a couple months ago, and have been reading and enjoying it since. Something I read this morning in [...]
All Will Be Well
This song captured me yesterday. We were driving home from a visit to the Peninsula, in the dark and fog, trying to hustle to beat the threatening snow, after a beautiful, happy, and fulfilling day, and I was struck by how happy I am. All is well. Truly. Life is good. As Gabe says, I [...]
Releasing
Tonight has been a hard night. I really don’t know why it’s been so hard. Work wasn’t unusually stressful. Life wasn’t unusually stressful. I’m getting therapeutic massage to try to deal with some long term spinal issues that cause me occasional pain and numbness in my arms and hands, and that was profoundly, well, therapeutic. [...]
January Spring
Seattle is weird. The plants have told me this week that it’s spring. The people have been telling me for a couple weeks that the worst of winter was over, but I didn’t believe them. Plants, though, don’t lie. I have daffodils and daylilies poking up, and there are fat buds on many trees and [...]
Sleepwalking
It’s been a good day, I guess. Mostly a day of cocooning. I never really got around to eating anything that could be classed as a meal today, but I’m ok with that. There was busy stuff in the morning, and then a long slow afternoon of work, after which I took a “nap” that [...]
Travelling to Damascus
This draft got lost somehow and forgotten. It’s almost 2 yrs old, but I just found it and want to post it. (12/9/11) – I have been folded and beaten and put through the fire so many times, but I think in this last cycle I finally took my temper. So much that was unnecessary [...]
Better than latte
It’s windy tonight, and the rain is splattering against the windows. It’s good to be inside with the cats. I have a little fire, even; a candle I bought today. I wandered into the scents section of the PCC on my quest for fish oil pills, and two smelly things came home with me. This [...]
Letting grow
Ok, so this is more daily page like. I’m just sitting here, in bed I thought about skipping writing today, but decided that was silly. I can write. It will help settle my mind from the busy gossip of the knitting circle I have come home from. I slept so well last night, after spinning [...]
I make
Since I was a small child, when I felt sad, or stressed, or frustrated, I made things. It gives me an incredible sense of peace to take raw materials and turn them into something with my hands. I have used yarn, paint, wood, paper, and wax. I’ve used plants, creating a garden layer by layer, [...]
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