simple

simple gifts,

simple things:

a honey

house warming.

clair van vleit

who runs janus press taught this

simple structure tome in a class 

she taught at the paper trail in ottawa. 

a LONG time ago.

 using it with amazing paper deepens the experience of simple

this paper is rhubarb with abaca

a paper i have only once been able to duplicate.

simple old rhubarb

 hides its fiber

 and then the season for papermaking is past.

 like these little squares, 

also simple

 truly good work 

can be woven on the simplest of looms.

 i had thought to make a simple booklet

to explain a bit about shifu

and contact printing on papers,

 i wrote about it,

 and so a dummy appeared in my mail,

my designer, printer, and dear friend carol

and i have been cooking up a project

for me to share

with students and friends.

i'm heading to australia in a month.

teaching and traveling and being in

that

wonderful

place

for a short while.

 ~~~

i've been swamped and forgetting things

simple things that made me happy:

a new year greeting

from the cave

 and another

from jennifer

 with

a message i am loving, 

good madness.

 and i will continue

to make little things

 and bigger things.

simply.