3 little things

1.

thank you all 

for your kind words

about NOVEMBER SONG

it was a year and more in the making

and has had 

the skilled hands of carol and mark (and me!) in the making

one copy is spoken for already.

spine detail

double gatefold, left opened, right closed.

~~~

2.

xxxxxxx

(for wendy)

~~~

and 

~~~

3.

three books +

the more i use these hands and this heart

to make sense of my walk on this earth,

well,

the more i learn

 these three books were made 

with dorothy, in human marks,

at longridge.

i've learned to honor something new

something bigger than me

to trust the way a teacher pushes me

~a leaf~

 knowing that work will sort itself out

into what i need to know

 so this little book

my own human marks

so like and unlike others'
somehow

 became this little experiment

which will now go to the loom's cotton warp.
i will weave a bit.

 this big book

the one in which i let myself work huge

and then threw water all over it

 frames that week for me

they are quite unlike my work,

in a sense

and very much my work

in another 

in the gutter

one finds little miracles 

some of the page spreads 

surprise me 

 i can see the starlings

though they were far from my thoughts

drawing

the cloth in these books

came from a thrift store: two blouses

i'll call this the caldwell binding.

simple and functional and appropriate for this 

sort of book.

i feel pulled into more work this summer

a few ideas in the stewpot,

a class (or three or four) to teach,

and a few friends

to visit

(look out!)

this morning it's very warm,

laundry's on the line.

something's in the works

puffs of hot wind gives it away. 

sometimes a thunderstorm claims this sort of day.

perhaps

my laundry will dry

first.