simplicity

a simpler ralli
stitched with red I think, then because it is artist's canvas
the stitches painted over with white on front side, visible as red on the back
still beautiful, still not true

the stars because of the yellow and blue Welsh quilt 
the simpliicty of it

soni

 

 

drawing on artist canvas with appliqued piecework
it looks like a pieced quilt, but it is not

beautiful, but not real

Maitri

 

The decision came to me to put these pieces together - make a second show.
Drop 'close ur eyes' from my David Kaye work - and put it with the canvas Ralli piece and the pinwheel madder square in square luminous path piece.  Also my Amish mirror diamond in square, and the red damsak with burnt holes.

I have so many pieces that are nearly done -

These ones make emotional sense to me as a group.

Maitri means loving kindness (pema)

How To Defeat Fear

 

Fear says:

"My weapons are that I talk fast and get very close to your face.  This unnerves you and so you do whatever I say.  If you don't do what I tell you, I have no power."


Listen to fear.  Have respect for fear.
Even be convinced by fear.

But don't do what fear says to do.  Fear has no power.

(Pema Chodron)

take off your shoes

Death
Wow and yikes
It's so hard to bear when the people you love die
but remember, that person will live fully in your heart

Also, that person will make you laugh out loud sometime
grief and friends
tears will bathe you

The first thing that God said to Moses "take off your shoes"

Death is as sacred as birth

anne Lamott - her ted talk  (my notes)