The Great Wall

Great Wall

Finding Safety

 

 

Zeke Israel remembered me and extended professional courtesies in discounting a few pieces of raku.  Debra Serrao got me to commit to her yaga classes twice a week at Cooper’s.   Six of us girls lunched at Ira’s Cafe`.

 

 

Blue Friday

Today was an extraordinary success.  The potato pancakes turned just a smidge from perfection; Lynn brought a pumpkin chocolate chip bread from a favorite bake shop on the main rock; and the gifts went off without a bust. 

otra vez

Sissy overfed my dog Thanksgiving dinner foodies.  Derby didn’t even finish it all … she moseyed into her bedroom and slipped into a tryptophan-induced coma.  She’s still there.

  

 

gobbles

It seems like forever that I’ve been marketing, doing food prep, cleaningcleaningcleaning and making Thanksgiving gifts.  My pink agate spatter pattern from Bennington Pottery Replacements made it today so my table will be blessed with this added splendor.   

  

Anyway I’m stopping for a beat to say “gobbles” to all friends and visitors of my nightjar.  May your table be festive and abundant; your day be full of colorful chatter … if not, then I send wishes for you to visit your local soup kitchen to serve others.

a day’s doings

 

 

Sunday I made a Japanese bound journal with Levenger circa paper and handmade Thai garden paper.  The waxed cord didn’t take so I used pink suede cord and it did fine. I also began my second quilted throw with some very cool hand dyed embroidery thread.

 

Ira Ono’s Art Gallery

One of my favorite spots.  Ira sponsors many events like his annual Peruvian Festival … where he hosts Andes’ artists and does up a fine spread.   His gardens are full of sculptures and he has an outdoor boutique as well as a cafe` on the grounds.

… He’s also instrumental in organizing the Thanksgiving Arts Fest where the Volcano Village artisans open their studios to visitors, selling their arts.  Those who are interested can request a postcard map of all the participating art studios in the region.

… Here is a slide show of Ira’s gallery where he sells the Volcano Village artist’s wares —->

Volcano Garden Arts: The Gallery

On LIfe, Love & Madness

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

onion’s news rap

PatientOnionSF: we already tripped and fell, i don’t think america can get back up, it can’t even handle iraq and afghanistan, let alone detroit

PatientOnionSF: AIG was too big to fail, but not Detroit.
PatientOnionSF: something is wrong

 

 

 PatientOnionSF: i am cybering with maniac, leave me alone.
PatientOnionSF: i am making foccacia and a vegan stir fry

 

PatientOnionSF:  we hate almost everybody, that’s why we have hundreds of military bases
PatientOnionSF: and cuz corporations get rich off supplying them, and it helps feed America’s cowardice and fear
PatientOnionSF: you can control people easy if you scare them enough
PatientOnionSF: cell phones, guns, nuclear bombs will keep you safe and happy
PatientOnionSF: since they want you to believe the world is fraught with evil and danger
PatientOnionSF: when in reality it is filled with sexy intelligent fun loving women

 

“Nothing Was The Same”

“It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree. There
is a sanity to grief, in its just proportion of emotion to cause, that
madness does not have.” Kay Redfield Jamison

David Rohde’s Return

David Rohde, war correspondent for the NYT, was on CSPAN last week.  He’d been kidnapped in Afghanistan, held by the Taliban in North Waziristan region of Pakistan, until his escape 7 months and 10 days later with the help of an AfPak driver.