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And so the wheel of the year turns again...

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And so the wheel of the year turns again...

We're mostly past the winter holidays and on into the short grey days of actual winter. The light is returning, slowly, and even though the trees are just snoozing with bare branches right now, you know they are dreaming about the lush days of summer. The garden is dormant, grass is buried under a thick layer of leaves (for the sleeping pollinators), and the beds we put in last summer have mostly transitioned from cardboard mulch to earthworm rich soil under their layers of straw.As I continue to wait for healthcare appointments that keep getting delayed, cancelled or rescheduled, I also feel a lot like I am snoozing with...

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Everything's Shiny, Captain.

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Everything's Shiny, Captain.

I was supposed to have an earring club this fall! What happened? Well at the risk of TMI, I'm a menopausal GenXer who has had several babies, and a lifetime of trauma, and my pelvic floor gave out. While pelvic organ prolapses are very common they range from mild with little impact on your day to day life to completely horrible and debilitating. I am hovering somewhere around "horrible and I can't do a lot of the things I was doing before this happened." I haven't been able to spend much time at the bench as a result. I can work, but between the...

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Access

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Access

I've been thinking a lot the last few weeks about accessibility. So much of the world is currently inaccessible to me due to covid risk, and that includes the Faire circuit I love. Ever since we moved up to the Pacific Northwest, some of the shine has gone out of doing this for me and I've realized that it's entirely because I haven't worked a live show since we left LA.I got into this 14 years ago with the intent of primarily doing street festivals, art fairs, music fests, and the Renaissance Faire. It was never supposed to be an "online...

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It's like Frodo says...

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It's like Frodo says...

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”Lately when the grief of the last 2 years crashes over me, I do my best to breathe through each moment. I take another walk, I go paint something, I pull out my knitting, I take solace in the work of my hands, because what else can you do? ***More and more of the tiny...

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Everything in its time.

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Everything in its time.

Everyone is so ready for the pandemic to be over. I’m not an exception to that rule, but am one of those folks for whom it is NOT over yet. I’ve been struggling with a huge sense of frustration and sadness over feeling left behind. The CDC guidance for people like me is basically, “We recommend you stay home and continue to wear a mask because the rest of us are tired of this and are ready to get on with our lives, and caring about YOUR life isn’t benefitting the economy.” And I’ll be honest, that just stinks. I live...

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