care

 sometimes another person

saves you

and they don't even know it

 sometimes

someone knows exactly 

 what will raise the spirit

restore.

a book of images

silver, cloth, paper

(three women)

to examine, perhaps with a lens?

 your eyes

a hand lens

a sherlock style glass!

and change your seeing

 on my table

these things

join the books in process

i am happy to follow where 

the books will lead me,

even a tiny one

especially a tiny one

to wear over my heart.

thank you
roz.

yesterday friends

reached out to me

you know, sometimes you need that
more than you even imagine.
there was a bear
a drum
a hawk,
words, prayers, even,
and winter
all visited me leaving
images that keep me alive.

introducing:

roz making shifu

roz hawker has a new blog.

you should go over and meet her!

why? well, having JUST taken her class

 velma's classwork

 and i continue at home

at beautiful silks' symposium

where i among a cast of characters taught.

roz taught me to look at stitches

differently.

to see them as marks.

drawing, even.

and so i've been stitching

warping the little loom

for shifu

and missing the scent of eucalyptus.

~~~

settling, now

 i look through dyed shifu

into the sky

where a spruce and a maple 

take up air space

and this morning

i'm threading heddles

guarded by my best friend

a long warp on my little loom

cotton for shifu

 surrounded by the heat of northern summer

the colours of australia

 tiny packets of threads

from roz's class

 and my little hidey sack

how they look in the mottled summer light

this flax paper is waiting

my working into it's strong surface

 a few things to think about

high summer

hot

stormy

insectful

blessed.

a final treat for me

 i spent two days at the end of my visit

stitching with roz hawker

 whose amazing work you see

above

 we were alchemists,

alchemistresses

 all seven of us

 dyeing and stitching

 and peacefully

 making marks

at beautiful silks

i say good bye to australia

hello to home starting today.

an enormous thank you to my hosts

marion and elephant at beautiful silks.

and to my lovely

students

and staff at beautiful silks.

this place is very special.