“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. [...]
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In his own words
Posted in Art, compassion, Inspiration, Memories, Seasons on October 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Weathering Hearts
Posted in animals, Antique/Vintage Textiles, Cats, compassion, Decorative, fabric/collage/applique, Memories, Nature, Places, Seasons, Slow Living, Travel on April 5, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I finally decided to name this piece “Weathering Hearts”. I have been watching and listening to Jude with her mini-series “Whispering Hearts”. Recently, I listened to two audio books on my walks, Wuthering Heights by Jane Austen and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. So in keeping with a literary theme, and for one I feel [...]
The Real Tigi and Ebenezer
Posted in animals, Antique/Vintage Textiles, Art, Cats, compassion, Decorative, Dyeing, fabric/collage/applique, Memories, Ruminating, Slow Living on March 21, 2011 | 14 Comments »
This was the inspiration for Tigi, my collage kitty in lace and softness….. And this is Ebenezer, soon to be found in the best way I know how. The tail was a good beginning. The fur will be a long but fun process. There is a potential for grace here, and that is how I [...]
Ebenezer (Ebby)
Posted in animals, Antique/Vintage Textiles, Art, Cats, compassion, Decorative, Dyeing, fabric/collage/applique, Memories, Places, Ruminating, Slow Living on March 18, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I have been spending all my free time working on Ebenezer, also known as “Ebby”, a gorgeous, smoky gray cat that went missing a few months back. He is still not found. The poster said he was “very friendly”, something that was concerning it seemed. Gray cats have various tones of color, so in this [...]
Tender Tigi
Posted in animals, Antique/Vintage Textiles, Cats, compassion, Decorative, fabric/collage/applique, Memories, Ruminating, Slow Living on March 12, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Tigi was named for a cat that I met through a missing cat sign on a telephone pole. The name and the personality stayed with me until it became a kind of spiritual entity, a remembrance, as many of these cats are never found. Throughout the creation of Tigi, the word “tender” captured the mood, [...]
A New Project
Posted in animals, Antique/Vintage Textiles, Art, Cats, compassion, Decorative, fabric/collage/applique, Memories, personal journal, Ruminating, Seasons, Slow Living on March 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
For the last several weeks now, I have been diligently working on a project that is so close to my heart. I am thinking a series of these projects, for starters, will be a good thing. I have spent so much time on this, hour after hour but loving every bit and piece and stitch. [...]
Foundlings
Posted in Antique/Vintage Textiles, Clothing, compassion, Indomitable Women, Memories, Places, Ruminating on February 24, 2011 | 19 Comments »
I had never heard of the Foundling Hospital or its heart-wrenching history until Selvedge magazine came out with an article on this in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue, #36. To quote from the article written there: “Opening in 1741, the Foundling Hospital in London took in the babies of unmarried women. Not a hospital in the [...]
A Gift
Posted in animals, Cats, compassion, Memories on February 1, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I have been busy working on these sachets for the last week. I decided I wanted to do something for the staff at the cat hospital for all the care and sensitivity and support they gave me through and during Lauren’s illness and passing. I also felt a project like this would help me heal [...]
A Remembrance
Posted in animals, Cats, compassion, Family, Memories, Ruminating, Seasons on January 20, 2011 | 17 Comments »
This morning my sweet kitty, Lauren passed away. She had been ailing for the last several months with renal failure. I feel her loss so deeply and want to remember her in this space, to pay tribute to her life and her remarkable presence in our lives. I adopted her from the animal shelter five [...]
A Guardian Angel
Posted in animals, Cats, compassion on November 22, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Sometimes in life cats need guardian angels too. And sometimes one never knows who or what might be lurking beyond, just outside the window….. A guardian angel must always be ready, brave, and confident. Checking and re-checking any and all locations. Sometimes flying high to peek around from above…. Or low, waiting on the stairs [...]
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