rail trip

weekly news:

i got the dry flax papers out of the blotters

stacking up a little pile of biggish sheets.

and hung up the felts at zone 4

before i prepared to visit toronto.

 this brick was part of one of the chimneys that rudy dismantled last winter

 lichens grow well here.

 beautiful miniature universe

 and the unused back door latch.

i still find debris that i clear away when i mow.

 7 am rainy morning trainride

 before i took the photo i thought there was a detectorist!

i got really excited.

then i looked at the picture.

 lake ontario

 and a tiny detail,

fringe made with cloth!

part of an installation

by Sally Thurlow
that wendy and i found by serendipity

and a visit to see Andrew's book after the launch at Swipe Design
i'm excited to read my copy because i really liked
and used The Inner Studio in my teaching.

just a coming together

the way this vibrant city does it.
brick and mortar

and beaver in unexpected places

text and textile are everywhere

and here, in so many languages, 

i'm ashamed i know only english.

i would have gladly learned other languages

when my mind was young and supple.

sigh,

now i listen eagerly, and enjoy without understanding.

can you imagine how wonderful 

it would be to discern

bits of the

conversations heard in passing?

or, better, to greet the speaker in their language?

after the second trip to soma 

(and the second chocolate and this time burnt honey gelato)

and one last stop at this very cool bookshop

we went back to wendy's to find the electricity was out. again.

off i went in an uber to union station

and then to brockville on the train, 

drove over the two-mile-long ogdensburg bridge

which moves, i know, because i walked it half way once,

swaying in the sky.

wendy's healing hands

resting for a while

between chocolate, talk, rolling blackouts, and love.

yes, she's wearing my shifu patch

a my kami-ito knit bracelet with roz hawker's silver amulet.

i hope she's resting today.

i am, with happy memories.

and now it's the next day

and i've planted a garden at Home,

mowed the grass at my place, 

and begun preparations for a visit i will tell you about.

eventually.