handswork

i can't tell you how many ecoprints

i've made,

on paper, mostly

but on textiles, too.

ecoprints for caliban press

this morning's work

i can only say that it's a lot.

this has been my pattern,

make as many variations on a theme as i can think of.

then move on.

miniature tapestries, igolochkoys, small editions of booklets

yarn (oh, how much wool i spun)

my hands love making these things. 

there are processes i don't like: felt making is not for me.

there are others that continue to compel me:

pulling sheets of paper

spinning a thread

sewing a seam

plain weave. 

just plain weave.

plain weave is enough to weave a life around and through.

~~~

there are related things my hands only liked doing,

ripping out a seam

braiding my horse's mane for a show

folding paper

nailing a board.

all liked well enough.

(indigo on shifu and daylily paper, and habu paper, spun)
~~~
but i have always been grateful for my small,
serviceable,
one tendon repaired,

beginning to be arthritic

hands

and the things they know.

serious leak

oh, no, now the japanese nuclear plant

is leaking, leaking

enormously

(on npr, this)

as i started to blog here

i was going to complain and make excuses for myself:

i downloaded a new operating system

and my head might

explode from new 

and found a new word processing program

thanks to carol

finer than the dastardly and horrific microsoft 

product

but that news pales next to leaking

radiation.

more.

again.

more.

adirondack sutra

 already the trees are turning

announcing:

adirondack sutra

 from caliban press

 mark mcmurray's

 newest book is done

 available at priscilla juvelis books

border crossings

indigo moons

ecoprints

land & sky

i helped a little

i love this

you might, too

the starlings danced

one morning

to clelbrate

mark's edition

in the azure sky

while the crows looked on

bemused

another morning

there they were again

not so many

but enthusiastic!

papered weekend

 focus on shifu

handmade paper

connection 

and

making whole

two little snippets of lokta, 

one indigo one not

greeted new shifu workers at

black walnut also made an appearance 

 there were even some special presents for me

 there was some healing 

gathered in the web of shifu

books to hold our work

our thoughts 

samples from home 

playing with teeny tiny niddy noddy 

some lovely drop spindles with 

whorls high and low 

stump innovations 

nancy's desk 

 a book with an african soul 

blue nails 

 and smiles

long ridge farm this past weekend.