soothing the pain

reclaimed silk shibori overdyed with artichokes and stitched

stitching is very soothing. and so is human kindness.

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math challenged

no matter how well planned and counted sometimes  i end up short of warp ends. not fun especially when they have been custom dyed for the project as in this case. good thing i still had some murasaki steeping in alcohol. now time will take its course with the yarns.

in the meantime staring at my design wall and having a feeling that all of this is irrelevant given the situation. thinking about life and how it goes on. though not in the superficial sitcom way we're used to  where even the most compelling issues have to be solved in twenty minutes. not even in the let's not think about it and keep moving way.

comfort  came by way of one of my favorite reads.

and outside is  raining and thundering. ides of march?

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on current events

 photo credit:http://japanesesymbolsofpresence.com/shinto.html

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII

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