Lace from Home

 From Louise Colgan's Wedding Lace Portfolio.  

 

Abby

 

From Bobbi Donnelly's Point Ground and Picots

#goforawalk #jacksonroad

This pandemic for me started March 16, 2020, the first day that school was closed.  This week the governor said that school won't return til next August, and it will be very different then.  Since this started, I have been taking a lot of walks on Jackson Road, my neighborhood.  At least 2 short walks with the dog, sometimes 3, and usually 1 long walk just for me every day.  It gives me time to reflect on the absurdity of life as we know it.

From Dante's Purgatorio: " Let us posit as a given: every love that's kindled in you arises necessarily.  Still, the power to constrain it lies with you.

 Catawba River in the fog

 My neighbors have a lot of flowers

 My herb garden

 Ralph, a neighbor, unfortunately moved on to the great mouse hole in the sky.

 Catawba River sunrises

I put the vegetables on the porch to cheat the deer and bunnies

Get outside everyone - go for a walk. 

The road home. 

WFH Working From Home

       Today is the sixth week of working from home because of the Coronavirus pandemic.  There's not a lot of library work for me to do, so I have been doing a lot of textile arts.  I'm knitting a double knit blanket designed by Lucy Neatby,

 I'm working on the lace for Abby's First Communion veil (supposed to be May 2 but will probably be postponed),

 Alexis and I made a bunch of face masks,

and I am learning tapestry weaving. I bought a Mirrix 16 inch Big Sister loom and a Saffron pocket loom with my stimulus funds (thank God I am a teacher and still have a job and am getting paid!)

   Last year I bought Rebecca Mezoff's Warp and Weft tapestry weaving class (part 1) but hadn't really done much with it.  She is having a drop in on You Tube every week day at 12:30 and I've been attending it since it started.  It has really inspired me.
   I have also started keeping a journal of my thoughts- but that has turned out to be pretty depressing.
Notable quotes from my journal:

Bandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principal:  The amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than the amount required to produce it.

Elizabeth Zimmerman - Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

John Prine - To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

Thoreau- What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Phillip Kenicott (WaPo)- The time has come for us to wear masks.  And when at last we can take the masks off, finally then we will begin to know who we are.

Rebecca Mezoff - Tapestry is a jealous medium.

Jonathan Swift- Falsehood flies and truth comes limping after.

News in Slow French - La vie, c'est les autres.