tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35285631449639039922024-03-14T02:28:48.951-04:00Wake Robin hand made paper, shifu, artists' books, north country living, and some wordsVelma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.comBlogger1294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-88149208440706794762019-04-17T18:03:00.002-04:002019-04-23T08:15:24.713-04:00moving after the divorce<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm divorcing blogger because it's too hard to use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so here is my new residence:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm incapable of tolerating blogger's continuing issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">come by and visit the new place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">xoxoxooxoxoxox</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-78552200166105007152019-03-21T16:54:00.002-04:002019-03-21T16:54:28.560-04:00time and change in balance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i have put my name on a piece of paper~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a purchase agreement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">selling my oldfarmhouse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and moving to the place i've been calling home, if all goes to plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this weekend, a warmer (relatively) night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the first night i've heard a welcome home timberdoodle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">winging circles overhead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">also my first robin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spring happenings hereabouts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here is my little beaver essay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a small black dot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> middle rear ground, just in front of the ice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moves left</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, becoming a log shape,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swims to center then left again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before coming close to me on the bridge, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then swimming away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not one tail smack, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so this beaver wasn't worried about me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and in the last photo it's heading towards me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">standing on the bridge taking rotten quality phone photos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> this place moves me deeply</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and then i looked up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the next morning was cold and sunny</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ice skirting streamside treetrunks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i drive this road home to the farm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where i found more springing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then a worm moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> see the nest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and this is the best my little camera can do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hannah is moving me from blogger, with whom i have struggled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back to squarespace where my website lives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometime this weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fingers crossed i can adjust and we can converse on the blog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because blogger won't let me talk with you.</span></div>
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-72875471010470862392019-03-18T14:37:00.001-04:002019-03-18T14:37:26.067-04:00springing again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in march the sky is sometimes like this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though snow still covered the land </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(there's much less now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only patches in shadyplaces)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it's still pretty darn cold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but spring is in the air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the deer are moving alot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> one is hiding against this elevated deer hunting thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at my neighbor's hedgerow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> soon i'll be on my way to idaho </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a talk and two days of kami-ito and shifu making</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(see the last post)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i return and head to portland to peddle my wares at the book arts bazaar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'll have papers and books and prints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and below,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these prints are really that strong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wild color gifts from the pot's alchemy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even a few eucalyptus </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">leaves harvested </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at codex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> this little book that i carried home from melbourne that last time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is letterpress printed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(on lousy paper, unfortunately)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it's cool </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i'm wondering what would happen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if i combined some of it with some other imagery...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is how it begins...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">another book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> our bookish group met and we made little blizzards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all over my table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">using up some drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a ruffed grouse was checking out the backyard </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> finding something left behind as the snow melts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> looking like the local name: partridge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> until there's something to attend to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> then the crown appears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and away with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no ruff display on this photo op.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there may be some news</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but not </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yet.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-86275714383444671142019-03-08T14:41:00.002-05:002019-03-09T08:09:10.797-05:00more daylight<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i just read someone's comment on facebook:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">soon we'll have more daylight because of the time change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haven't they been looking around?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even here, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in this long harsh winter with little sunshine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the days grow longer, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even if they are snowy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and windy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or just really cold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so cold,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> i turned back on my walk the other day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that person needs to go outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[as if the human grid of time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has a way of shaping the arc of days.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inside i've been making prints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">really fine colors, patterns</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">appearing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">happily surprising me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> looking out my windows midday in the 9 degree wind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i saw a very hungry youngster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">braving my yard </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for cedar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hoping for food, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eschewing that scary road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> glad i dropped some bits from the twigs i gathered for printing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but it's not enough to make that belly warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> meanwhile, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">keeping my hands busy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i spun up thread while waiting out the bitter winds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i found a little of the leftover old lokta* to spin up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here it is,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">looking lovely in the early morning sun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*thanks to my australian friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">karen and robyn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and as some of you might observe, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">i deleted the swear word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">it's not my call to condemn if folks don't pay attention to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">their days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and it's hysterical that daylight fades their curtains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">within a timeframe that only they</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">can understand. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here, the sun fades things if and when it does.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">not, i might add, the contact prints on paper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or not that i've observed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">not once. ever.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-69906937048617481702019-03-04T20:31:00.000-05:002019-03-04T20:31:17.174-05:00marching orders<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i love march and november</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the way the landscape opens and you can see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>really</i> see </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the bones of the land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here it means hard walking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in november risky hiking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(hunting season).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in march it can be mud season</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or, like now, a foot or so of good snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i haven't been on skis this winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mostly an arthritis in my foot issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i do get out a bit and tromp in my mighty sorels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">today i collected arbor vitae (white cedar) and fern fruiting bodies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the prints i folded, built, wrapped and cooked this afternoon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i cut up some paper for kami-ito.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the mail came a couple of things, this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> japanese indigo in a soft mattress of fine flax</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ready for spinning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from <a href="https://www.twolooms.com/">two looms textiles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and socks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then naomi velasquez sent this tonight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because i'm headed to idaho to teach shifu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the end of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'd love to meet you there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in other news:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">indigo and flax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oh joy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oh rapture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow my what is an image class meets </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to make paper...</span></div>
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-36367385642384813562019-02-20T18:41:00.003-05:002019-02-20T18:41:52.500-05:00the miles<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">learning milkweed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i call it putting in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or reading </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(you know, the research) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what i mean is </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doing the work.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i like teaching and i like watching </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">students of all ages</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<i>getting it</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">**</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">****</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eureka!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then it disappears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then it returns, more and more, till you know it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i've had students a few times </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">j u s t n o t g e t i t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">usually those students have this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s o m e t h i n g i n t h e w a y.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and i've had students </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w o r k t h r o u g h i t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">case in point: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">long ago i had the great opportunity to teach beginning handspinning at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pine mountain settlement school in kentucky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i was barely an intermediate spinner, despite having spun several pounds of fleece using spindles and wheels. i was told by a friend that i could teach beginners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i believed her, so tried it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">well, it was amazing and all of them got it and i was so proud. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">except for one woman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her hands couldn't relax and allow the wheel to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she fought the wool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">backing up a bit: i learned to spin on my ashford traditional that i put together right out of the box...i spun in my ridiculously ugly apartment complete with green shag carpeting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and i pushed that three legged beast through the thick shag, that's how hard i treadled. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but eventually i stopped chasing it across the floor and my hands began to learn the wheel, the wool, harmonize their particular tune. back to pine mountain: she failed, tried a few times, then refused to try, and left the class. i was mortified: i'd failed her. i knew i was young to be teaching and therefore couldn't figure it out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">again, the same thing happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">teaching shifu to a beginner group. this time i was older, a longtime teacher. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she sat close to me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eventually disclosing some difficult personal issues, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and could only work for a few hours each day. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her issues, that baggage, clogged up the capacity to learn. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">those paths were being used by other demanding things. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she tried, but she couldn't, her hands hard and stifled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i wrote about how making shifu has helped some of my </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">students </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">with healing, processing their own personal stuff </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand Papermaking (summer 2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> it's not always a big processing that's going on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sometimes it's just daily detritus in the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(the "you need to walk" or "do the dishes", or "ride your horse") </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is why you put in the miles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">waiting for the bigger ideas that come along when they please.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">meanwhile you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">practice. practice. practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i talked about this with a friend sunday, at my table, drinking tea, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sharing ideas </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">practice. practice. practice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">being present, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">with practiced skilled hands head heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as i teach young students </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">i mourn some of the things </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">those in education have chosen to leave behind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> things like sewing, measuring, drawing, choosing and understanding tools. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hand skills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">determination. focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">empowering </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">another person, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">teaching them how to approach problem solving, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how to attempt, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how to succeed, how to fail </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and try again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or adapt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the last two years i've made a lot of paper, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">much of it from raw flax, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but some from linen rag (retired clothing). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i went to pbi and took an amazing busy class </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with flax expert </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">mary hark, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and i continue to put that new learning into practice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in two years what i know is a bit about how raw flax becomes paper. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i know a bit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and that's the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i haven't hurt my body doing this or bankrupted myself, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i have worked hard and continually at it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and now i know something about flax papermaking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(and a bit about using it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how it behaves)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this format, the internet, makes it easy to think that mastery, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or even competency is easy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it could be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i say it isn't. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i belong to a few forums </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the ridiculous questions people ask instead of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trying things themselves or reading or practicing or understanding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> bother the heck out of me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because to be a maker, to be adept, to be skilled, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you have to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and every single one is, may i propose, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sacred. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your own sacred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and owned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">none of us have to be the best, the smartest, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the whatever we were measured against.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we do have to do our work well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and with a few other qualities that you already<i><span style="color: red;"> know</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or will <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">learn</span></i><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'll be teaching North Country Shifu in Pocatello, Idaho </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the end of march.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm looking forward to making string again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my slu freshmen are keeping me busy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with a class called <i>what is an image?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> together we'll find out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a little bit about </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that very question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">still learning milkweed</span></span><br />
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-65773627797991848552019-02-15T13:37:00.001-05:002019-02-15T13:37:17.356-05:00all stitched up<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All Stitched Up deadlines coming up:</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">An international juried book arts exhibition </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">September 3rd – December 11th, 2019</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Call for Submissions</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">All Stitched Up</span> is asking for submissions of artists’ books from around the globe where stitching is a featured element. They may be visible stitches for the binding, text, or images, or any technique that leaves evidence of stitches. Artists’ books may be from an edition or unique, and created from any medium. There is a $10 submission fee for up to 3 works.</div>
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To stitch is to join together, to mend, or fasten as with stitches – to sew. To stitch is to bring together fabric, paper, wounds of the body, or cultural divides. Stitching can be an act of healing, hope, practicality, creativity, and revolution. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">All Stitched Up</span> recognizes and celebrates the work of book artists’ where stitching has become an integral part of the visual design. Curators Catherine Alice Michaelis, Jane A. Carlin, and Diana Weymar will jury the show and a print catalogue will be created.</div>
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We are particularly (but not solely) interested in works that showcase collaboration and focus on building a sense of shared community. That may include collaboration between two or more artists, two or more communities, or crowd-sourced projects. Sewing that joins people and ideas link us to historical social and political sewing circles from the abolitionist movement of the 1800s, to the corporate resistant DIY movement kindled by the Riots Grrrls in the 1990s, to the knitting collectives of today that focus on the anti-war, pro-science, and pro-choice movements. In addition, you may draw inspiration from the embroidered books of the Victorian period, the rise of needlecrafts during the Arts & Crafts period, and family traditions of sewing by machine or hand stitching.</div>
<span style="color: #747578; font-family: UniversRegular, Univers, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This exhibition will include pages from Diana Weymar’s </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747578; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Interwoven Stories</span><span style="color: #747578; font-family: UniversRegular, Univers, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #747578; font-family: UniversRegular, Univers, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">project. This includes </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747578; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background-color 0.1s linear, border-color 0.1s linear, color 0.1s linear, opacity 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Refashioning Identity</span><span style="color: #747578; font-family: UniversRegular, Univers, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, which was created by members of the Puget Sound community in 2016/17 as facilitated by Weymar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I believe that the world was created and approved by love, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that it subsists, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and endures by love, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and that, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it can be redeemed only by love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">leaving for Codex in the window between storms was wise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and staying overnight in Syracuse, also wise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because the trip was almost seamless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only two hours late.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then, arrived and disoriented, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i found my daughter hannah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we made out way to the inn, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on BART in very heavy rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sunny and clear sunday we set up and then...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> into the chaos of the BIG EVENT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> showing Daylilies and Songbirds was fun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it may have a new home </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(at least it was requested)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> there were a few scarves, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which i often bring along because they echo the contact printed papers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and almost sold out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i was glad that down jacket came along</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> being sometimes outside was a blessing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> zen moments </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as caliban mark promised</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> inside the craneway it was like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just before they came, the big crowd took a while to filter to our end of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to our right was anne covell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and left a table shared by jan owen and ellen knudsen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all rock stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anne's table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the building itself was lovely to be in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> gigantic hagrid doors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we had weather all right,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">heavy rain, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the ocean was a big presence, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">green and blue and gray and heavy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HUGE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i didn't ask </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but i wondered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i came home and rested for a few days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this arrived </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from aimee </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so many wonderful people:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thanks especially to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Codex Dina, who made it happen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hannah, who more than helped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alisa, who fed us, body and soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda, the best of papermates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my tablemates, Anne, Ellen and Jan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shanna and Andrea and Mary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Mark who was astonished that i actually did it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to my inspirations all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and M who kept the home fires burning.</span></div>
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-62955387956248149082019-01-30T07:51:00.000-05:002019-01-30T07:51:28.309-05:00before Codex, briefly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the weather<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--9EvjEqLSSU/XFGYroaxTVI/AAAAAAAAaZ0/6J4IvrPB-YIOdvpqJUR3FQ9QWXeiUqE-wCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_8540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--9EvjEqLSSU/XFGYroaxTVI/AAAAAAAAaZ0/6J4IvrPB-YIOdvpqJUR3FQ9QWXeiUqE-wCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_8540.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is all the news here, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">constant temp swings (60 degrees in a little over 24 hours!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and today warning like crazy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i hope i can get to syracuse to catch the plane to get to san francisco for Codex</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with no snow to deal with along rt. 81, the snow belt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">maybe i should make a magic gut parka </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(and below wonderful needles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pre-historic and beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from all over the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we were stitching.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shift back to now-- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here's the stump loom with one of my own deer bone folders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doing double duty as shed stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is the stump loom i wove the pages on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for this book </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here is the interior of a one of my new shifu books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> made from old kozo ledger pages from japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> this was a precious gift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the final book, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 x 6 x 1/2 in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm in a rush, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and hoping that if you're coming to Codex, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you'll stop and visit me at table #190.Cod</span></div>
<br />Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-18720702210528800622019-01-19T08:50:00.001-05:002019-01-19T08:50:45.229-05:00many books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the making</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while winter deepens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">out back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i make artists' books, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i'm most certainly not an edition binder, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i don't have anything like the skills or the dedication. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i do like putting my work into a book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or my work being a book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a stack of indigo hemp papers sandwiched by shifu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which binding style suits best?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm prepping for <a href="http://www.codexfoundation.org/">Codex</a>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and happily my daughter hannah's generous boss jane gave her leave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to accompany me to san francisco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a happy lively and springy wee book, flax and hemp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so there is paper everywhere, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shifu, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">threads, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even some pva and a huge piece of african bark cloth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as well as a couple of yards of black wool to sew into a tablecloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">huge bark cloth sheet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> boards glued, covered, weighted, drying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bags have been ordered and arrived, and a receipt book still to be procured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but this is what i've learned:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the more i make, the more i dive in,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the more ideas come and the bolder i become.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paper everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ideas everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">books everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shifu, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> the silk slot and tab book came together, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">after years of gestation there's an edition of three</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you can't rush some things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">almost 9K stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> i was given a little miracle found growing on the woodpile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">colored like the bark cloth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> meanwhile outdoors the deep freeze has set in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and a snowstorm predicted today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on the stove the pot of dye gets intermittent use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the left "ink spots" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the spoon resting on the stove</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are nifty.</span></div>
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-84103430973966311132019-01-11T14:54:00.000-05:002019-01-11T14:54:03.332-05:00squeaky up the road, there*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mysterious canine prints going up my driveway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">probably coyote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">looking out the early morning kitchen window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">seeing four new boulders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">become</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">deer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yep, later on i found evidence:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">feet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bed and there were other things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">using shanna weights to hold down the silk for my book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thousands of stitches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">see the bottom leather, that turquoise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">colors on the back-of-the-house-fix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hemlock board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and two more books in the works</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have you ever tried to get colors to behave with a stupid camera?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the hemstitched borders are all taupe/grey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not lavender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no matter how much i tweaked the color, hue, brightness, tone, value... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i couldn't come close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this book is coming along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there should and edition of three when I'm all done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is the original triple woven silk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you can see where the three layers are snagged together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">see the pattern dimples?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">keeping it all straight:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dye on the back burner,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'soupper' on the front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bookish came to my house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> these little stitched images are judith's iconography</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and todd brought me his wild grape (fox grape) ink in the world's best bottle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">since these photos we have had real winter settle in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a foot of snow and deep cold, under zero, but not below minus 10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it is pretty 'sharp', </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and breathing outside hurt this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">* a friend quoted, referring to one of my neighbors.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-73975168149045667662018-12-29T13:07:00.000-05:002018-12-29T13:07:08.206-05:00inventory<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's time for the reckoning, or in modern americanese: inventory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i've taken a totally arbitrary approach here, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">picking photos from my desktop:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. copper pipe marked by goldenrod leaves from a workshop years ago </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with india flint </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at long ridge farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's resting on one of the stump looms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the right kind of alchemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 2. linda marshall of washi arts is an amazing advocate for japanese paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a fine friend </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and host who took care of me in vancouver last fall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she's a terrific guide for me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and provides all kinds of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">help for artists wanting to use </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">really good papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 3. this book, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indigo Patterns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was purchased this year by Owen D Young Library at St Lawrence University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's a book i loved making, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the cover is "shifu" with dyed pattern paper, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">linen paper, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and slippery elm bark weft, linen paper warp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pages are indigo dyed pattern papers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tacketed binding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 4. my little Flax Notion edition sold out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i loved making this one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all flax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 5. fern dust: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm in a conversation with mari newell who also works with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and yes, it IS a thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 6. rocks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i love rocks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these are from jasper beach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and i love how <a href="https://www.shannaleino.com/">shanna </a>wraps lake michigan rocks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 7. milkweed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as ever my favorite ever paper that i've made, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my fist edition done so long ago that my children </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(now 33 and 36) were in grade school while i made it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's a generous and strong plant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 8. we lost gwen this year, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shown here in the foreground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> unusually behind her pack </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 9. raw flax paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">absolutely nothing like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 10. i think this book, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12 Moons, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sold this year to Baylor University by Alicia Bailey </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(but maybe it was last year, sigh) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shifu cover, silk endpapers, pages all botanical contact printed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">double pamphlet stitch binding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 11. still contact printing mostly on paper, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">occasionally on shifu </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mostly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 12. my papermaking class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">only one student in the bunch was an art major. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the four adult students and i meet every so often to talk </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and make books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t's nifty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this group was such a blessing to me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">keeping me</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> thinking</i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> about papermaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all autumn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i started a post today and meant to go way elsewhere, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but here we are instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you all who read are blessings, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thank you, you are a joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">please feel free to contact me through the website, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blogger seems to be ignoring me here and out on others' sites, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as for from now until february 2 when hannah and i get on planes for california, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i will be working on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inventory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for </span><a href="http://www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2019/2019-schedule-of-events" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">CODEX</a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> .</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-71290912665916791712018-12-21T10:00:00.002-05:002018-12-21T10:00:39.417-05:00eagle solstice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there have been bald eagles this winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">four so far, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two last trip into the forest preserve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there were many years without eagles altogether,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so this is good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> there was some snow left on the setback near newton falls last weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a real wilderness sense</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">despite being near old industrial sites</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(newton falls paper mill, benson mines)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and someone left an apple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> now it's warm and the snow is gone and they're predicting rain and floods and wind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">solstice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i began the day early</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">finishing up the leftover pulp from the semester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">indigo pigmented abaca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">may this solstice sustain your heart.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-77245868161785005592018-12-14T06:21:00.000-05:002018-12-14T06:21:13.810-05:00winding down<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">another class has ended, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the moulds cleaned and felts washed and stacked neatly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and i am happy with my class, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so many beautiful (in the richest sense) young people, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and my four mature students, also beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there was some leftover pulp </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so after giving away all that was wanted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i brought the rest home for some kitchen papermaking,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aka making little papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the studio is equipped with lee mcdonald miniature laid and wove moulds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">business card size: purchased during handpapermaking's auction one year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and a 5 square inch mould from the paperwright, britt quinlin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on loan from slu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.aimeelee.net/">aimee</a> sent me a little stack of kozo papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this was my favorite, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it's now a nifty ball of kami-ito</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> turkey trot: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pointing or not to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they were atop one of the rises on my walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disappeared into the woods</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">leaving behind evidence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the fall semester seems a little too long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">about now,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but there is a sense of catching up as everyone makes their</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">last sheets of paper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when rachael asked for color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she was delighted with how purple happened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when we added in some off-cuts and beat them with the abaca/kozo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then she </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">chose what she thought might be a rich teal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she mixed off cuts of green, yellow, and midnight blues...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the pulp promised a deep teal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but resolved into a layered light summer green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">color!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this color mixing was more like working with paint than pigment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or a chemical alchemy unpredictable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because we worked with leftovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eli's wee moulds made at the farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and supplement with the printmaking ones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so many folks in a small space</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shared with the silkscreen class, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i have them fairly well trained...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">six of the students are living at the farm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where the sustainability program runs what looks a lot like a supported commune</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(remember communes? now called intentional communities around here.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the sustainability program has taken on the motto:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE ARE FARM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they understand they <i>why</i> of making paper by hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> dead leaves and sticks (iris, daylily, milkweed)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> slippery elm bark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> black walnut dye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i often wonder what delivery or service folks think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my friends know that the porch is a bit of a supply/storeroom/disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> one of my favorite neighborhood buildings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a wobbly roofline </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">indicates it won't make it much longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> not all tracks left behind are wildlife</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> snow caps on cut birch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> if i'm really brave i harvest some greenery for printing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's really hard on your hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that old barn in the last sunshine of the day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on a fine day in december, as the sun begins the fast setting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the year winds down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's time for hunger in the woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some teaching news and below more news from here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in June i'll be teaching <i>botanical contact (boco) prints</i> for the NEGBW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>boco prints</i> in Idaho earlier in the spring is not quite, but almost, confirmed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">august will find me <i>TAing</i> for the amazing <a href="http://christinemauersberger.com/workshops/2019/8/25/2019-deer-isle-me-discovering-a-mindful-stitching-practice">Christine Mauersburger</a> at Haystack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and next fall a <i>book arts</i> class at SLU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">may 2020 i'll be teaching <i>north country shifu</i> at the amazing Maiwa in Vancouver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">found buffalo jasper fetish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some wonderful colors on paper recently</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as i prep for:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(drum roll) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.codexfoundation.org/">CODEX</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wake robin is traveling west in february for CODEX.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yep, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's the big time for this country mouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Francisco!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's an early winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so far ❅ who knows these days ❅</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and my birthday tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my sweetie bought me a gift:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just look at the box!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and i've oiled her up and been making some marks on paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creamy arches text wove, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">grassy green cave paper,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and helen heibert's crinkly magenta abaca long beat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thanksgiving</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">birthday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gratitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gifts from the land--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the last of the calendula</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and still it remains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">beyond beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when the sun shines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the little ones go for a watery frolic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and we wait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the winter's ease and reflection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">snowy and sunny, but mostly overcast so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">backyard bounty and beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bleak and verdant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> backporch harvest:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> birds' nests, mouse nest and feather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">backporch road find</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> homework: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inadvertent advertising</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> gather, bundle, cook, rinse, dry, use</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i woke to gray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which means snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the showers turn up and down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but not much snow is expected today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">recent inadvertent sitings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a bald eagle lifting into the sky </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an ermine making crazy running around over and across the road</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a gathering of ruffed grouse hens</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in one of the grandmother maples</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">budding (eating maple buds).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">despite all the hoopla all over the place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's a time to say thank you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to my children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">family, friends, blog readers and internet friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the folks who have purchased my work</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">papers and shifu and books.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-31362714497076820282018-11-15T19:07:00.000-05:002018-11-16T10:48:50.428-05:00as the season darkens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into winter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> there is still light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a flash of white in sunlit grasses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and tess appears!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> not far from the place where i spotted a kingfisher </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">several times, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">didn't see this day, probably gone south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> we see ducks here, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which tess ignores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i mean, there could be grouse close by so--off she goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in the corner closest to my little garden between the granite ledges</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> paper wasps were practicing their craft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this is BIG.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> raccoon activity along the road</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and i've taken to talking back to these ravens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who gather nearby and quark loudly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as teenagers do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">there were seven yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'd rather embarrass myself by quarking,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> trying out conversation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">than take photos, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so i didn't get all seven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> popple/aspen and a trace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and it's gotten very very cold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the single digits yesterday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> neighborhood barn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in front of which </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a plenty of high bush cranberries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">quite a crop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but they're my neighbor's, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">before the snow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was clear and very cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then it came</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">freezing everyone right up into little balls or broken pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i love the cold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">love how it makes me attend to its demands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even though i do whine about it from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the last of the sumac leaves here are gone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one branch broke completely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">showing sumac's fragile heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stay warm and well and creative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the sumac?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it was in the pot today and the prints are drying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i sometimes think i could study botany in order to understand plants better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i also know myself, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'd be going off on tangents and would rebel against thorough scholarship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this is only to say that i'm not particularly interested in doing this, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not really, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but then i go outside and look around and know that i don't know the names, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">let alone the personalities </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and properties </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of many of my neighborwood plants. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i had a shepherd visiting for a long weekend, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and his 2 year old intensity, energy and ability to focus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were such a joy to be around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">frances knows how to pay attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">especially to the snow in the new yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if i was still for a while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i found that he would do his best to keep me company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intermittent sunshine and much rain </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and now, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">now these leaves are mostly down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the fruit crops, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wild and domestic apples, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">invasive and magical buckthorn, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">raspberries, blackberries, crabapples, haws, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gray dogwood, wild grapes, staghorn sumac, and many others are everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oh, and paper wasps' summer home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fell out of the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i did try once to pulp this paper to make pulp, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but it was more like sludge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my favorite paper plant (except all the others)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some late goldenrod, highbush cranberries (i think), yarrow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all went into the contact print bundles </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we've had only bits of sun and one sunny day all autumn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my neighbors have these for sale on friday and saturday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i'm told they're delicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">working in my kitchen to make prints involves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">buckets of metals and the occasional appropriated weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and a lot of vegetation spread out on a cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my biggest round pot with some copper pipe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and apple twigs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and aluminum and steel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the fierce, diagonal autumn light </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all around my fallingdownbarn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">made of recycled barn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and giving way to age and weather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i have staghorn sumac moving onto my place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">giving me lovely leaves and stems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but not yet one horn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but i can find them </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the roadside, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">instead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">did you vote yet? DO!</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-35557277727864474372018-10-24T10:03:00.002-04:002018-10-24T10:03:23.461-04:00sleet in the weather report<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and winter approaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i hauled in milkweed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and chopped each stick into three or four pieces so they'd fit into my big pot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for steaming. then began the interminable stripping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and scraping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the next morning a few tiny bits appeared in the sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there was a lot of pulp in my big pot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the leftover stalks which are slick and clean and so lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i've now hand beaten all that pulp </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over 3 or 4 days, 3 or 4 hours daily </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes the hands were sore)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and will make glorious paper soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">upon coming home the other day i found</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a narsty squirrel invaded my black walnut stash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ripped my screen door when pushing through a too small tear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">blacl walnuts were lined up in a row across my driveway </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and up the steps, where s/he stopped for snacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">under the other big dyepot, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a surprise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the light breaks through clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the old maples are shedding their varicolored leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pileated woodpecker, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cock of the woods, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">called and flew over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and continued calling while scouting for a good place to feed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the back meadow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where last week i harvested that huge bagfull of milkweed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">light dances.</span></div>
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-52871285270060617102018-10-17T08:48:00.001-04:002018-10-17T08:48:05.494-04:00serial photography/cereal photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wrapping paper, hangi, from aimee became one long strip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">soy beans added to help keep paper from sticking to itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">after the spinning and most beans were removed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the spun thread</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kami-ito ready for north country shifu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a night prowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yes, it's a bobcat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">m's seen this one or its relative, up close, too close, and personal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">buckthorn berries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">harvest from my yard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">retired the potato masher to the dye kitchen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the froth settled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the cook begins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">draining through a paint strainer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">borrowed from the paper mill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the liquor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">why cereal photography?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the top bowl is from east fork pottery and is their cereal bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the bottom bowl is a pyrex (vintage same as the potato masher) mixing bowl</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the cereal bowl my once teenage nephew used to use.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-11486045926355753232018-10-06T09:52:00.002-04:002018-10-06T10:00:09.412-04:00black walnut work<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the new reality of blogger is that i can no longer make comments </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to you wonderful readers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so conversation is curtailed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i will move the blog back to square space, where my website lives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because i hate all this confusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if feels like that strange phone call i got from the admin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or the email that also came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i call it lousy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for all of you who read and comment and/or try to comment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bear with me as i try to make the switch again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and leave the clunky blogger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it may take a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here's a little tale of a warm, medium brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i had the gift from a black walnut tree from my neighbor Val.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this was a sweet thing because i really want to make stuff this fall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as antidote to craziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> this big stock pot completely full</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was filled with water (which barely covered it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> i've seldom picked black walnuts,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i wait till they fall (usually the trees are huge).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this time they were all very, very green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the citrus scent was fresh, lovely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">another neighbor and sometimes student of mine Regan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and her granddaughter helped pick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> it went fast</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the tree was so generous and abundant with nuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> covered with my hard well water, set covererd on the stove, at full high heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(it takes a while to get up to heat)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but here's the pot after the first un-lidding and tiny stir</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9not much room to stir)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the scent intensified, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a hot citrus dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you can see the change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> after stirring the pot-they start to darken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i never saw this before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> duotone walnuts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> after an all day cook,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who knows how many hours-maybe 9?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> they were all dark and dye liquor was developing from the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> punctured hulls are beginning to fall away from the inner nut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i stirred and chopped away a bit with the big spoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and then it cooled slowly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> disintegrated more overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> this morning I started the stove again and it's simmering away now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and smells of earthy, off-chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> much more "in pieces" than before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the way to becoming a colorant: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ink and or dye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">something positive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i also made 5 big boco prints. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">antidote to despair.</span></div>
Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-37108910181076387652018-10-04T13:05:00.001-04:002018-10-04T13:05:13.371-04:00golding<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">autumn is late and the golding of trees seems pale and unhappy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">virginia creeper and a few red maples have flamed up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but it's a weird late fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mirroring the weirdness in this country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hard frost forecast for tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so i continue making art</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in my corner of the adirondack foothills</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an act of hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">these goofy buckets? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">prizes from horse shows in the 90's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> my students continue to amaze me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the papermaking, and this week volvelles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and this one who took barry's peace piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and wears it with deep pride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quin explained how he and another student enlarged the holes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just enough to lace through a thick leather cord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">another student, eli, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is making custom moulds after lee mcdonald.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on the kitchen counter of alchemical delights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">turmeric ink, and black eyed susan leaf dye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and in the shadows an ancient one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">judy serebrin's polar bear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">guards the table that's not just for meals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and lovely ink from tim mclaughlin and shanna's rocks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a wee stack of indigo flax papers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a skein of petal-dyed yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the right of these objects is a west window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that looks out on my back yard that decreases in size</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as the woods reaches in around the perimeter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> young deer learn that this place is a safe one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and they get used to me speaking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a little bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i have always loved the ancient south american textiles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">perhaps they mirror a politic as vicious as ours is now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where our deepest language reveals our acceptance of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">injustice and misogyny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when i look at these pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i don't try to understand much about their place in space and time, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that's the work of the good scholars, not me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i look at the color, the design, the weave/craft of the making</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">imagining what the whole cloth might have been like and how precious it must have been,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the many hours in the making,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their power and art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these thoughts sustain me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when i can turn my mind from the worldly worries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the very great hedi kyle to all of us who fold paper into books and things:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blueroofdesigns.com/">elissa </a>showcased projects from this book and i have been a little envious of her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">also, i admire her like heck as she's blogged about the book </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">while caring for her wee daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i had a weekend workshop with the amazing hedi at syracuse university </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">several years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">she was a clear and kind teacher, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">generous with her huge understanding of the book arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if you're not familiar with hedi,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">know that she is one of the greats </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who has taken the arts of the book to new places with her curiosity and work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i had taken a stack of my papers for the weekend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and hedi honored me by buying a bunch. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">modern weavers making a scaffolded warp...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">keeps me thinking.</span><br />
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Velma Bolyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528563144963903992.post-29426655409959484032018-09-27T20:10:00.002-04:002018-09-27T20:10:29.637-04:00listening and students<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i am listening today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i will only say ugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so i'll talk about my papermaking class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eli likes to make things, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he's taken to making tools like a duck to water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the big folder he fashioned from cow bones he sourced nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he softened the edges and formed this tool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's not exactly right for folding, so he made another tool, the small one above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">between these two he can do a lot of book work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then he made four picks and one had a fault which he took advantage of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he can tell you which one is best for his mandolin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so the Maiwa cloths, which sat patiently waiting for me to wash them out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> there was very little dye loos and no color change that i saw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ironing them was sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and another on my students, Roman, is a fiber worker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he sourced nettles, t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hese arne't stinging nettles but a local unrelated nettle, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but still a nettle (i am NOT a botanist)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the first batch he brought was one thin strand, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this is a bit more and such a glorious green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> he retted them i think he said not quite long enough, but was happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i could barely keep my hands off eli's picks and roman's nettles, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if they only knew how proud i am of their accomplishments!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these students are two of the handful from the Sustainability Program at SLU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they live at a farm about 5 miles from campus and practice sustainability</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a house, a way of living for an entire school year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Racheal is doing a second year I believe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and my class is part of their program this fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they're highly motivated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">these guys questioned me about the over-use of water for papermaking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the disposal of waste... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they are thinking and doing young people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh, and eli--he's onto making moulds now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i can't wait to see what he designs!</span></div>
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