Comments on: Mary Austin

By: Suella

Suella — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:36:05 +0000

Thank you for this. The glory of your blog, and a few others are the exposure to intellectual ideas and conversations that aren’t necessarily always easy to find in my everyday life.

I suspect that we would get on well. I’m orginally from Seattle, love Portland and could easily live there, am fascinated by ethnographic textiles. I have cats, horses and we eat no meat.

Your blog posts intrigue and inspire me to look at things anew and keep trying new things.Here in the middle of preovincial England the internet keeps my consciousness growing.

Should I ever return to Portland, Perhaps for one of the Art Fests, I would be honoured to take you out for lunch or dinner where-ever you wish. It would be a great pleasure to me and a small way to say thank you for the inspiration your blog gives.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:18:25 +0000

I requested the book “How Much Joy Can You Stand” from the Library. It took a while to get to me but it is an amazing book. Totally workable and usable for any one that is on the quest. This one I will reqest as well. I like what Mary Austin said about the hand finding no fault. It is such a sensitive comment. That is just what a person does, they feel as well as observe.
Thanks for the recomendation.

By: Deb G

Deb G — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:35:44 +0000

“the value of making something with love, but selling it for money because one had to survive.”

I think that sums up a situation that arts/crafts people can find themselves in quite well.

Going to go see if the library has a copy of this book now.