abundance continuing

gratitude

the internet supplies patterns should you wish 

to make skin mittens

several patterns are keeping me thinking.

i don't need to make mittens just now

but i'm thinking about them.

about how we shape around our own frail skins

protection

to keep warm.

these mittens (below) are for the greenland kayakers

see the similarities

and 

the differences?

can you see why they are made each way?

 winter's arrived 

with snow and ice 

but it's still fairly warm,

37 today.

 the flat light of the short 

(just ever so much longer) days

 is just that.

and the solar panels don't keep us in enough

electricity without a generator boost.

 my red camera lens is hopelessly scratched

so i bought another 

for australia.

 daylight wanes

on days when i am totally unplugged.

 the ice overhang

gallops to the ground now and then.

BOOM!

 and i find that i am in need

of some kami-ito.

a little while a little work

and i'm all set

for some more stitching and shifu.

new year thoughts

were happily frolicking,

almost troublesome, but not really

last night in bed.

i got up once or twice

to hunt pen and paper

to grab thoughts as they flew through.

sketches.

excitement and more,

as some new work begins to make 

teeny tiny rootlets.

i love these beginnings.
~~~
and michelle sent
a link to a very fine and appropriate 
poem.
www.rattle.com/poetry/a-toast-by-wendy-videlock/