'I Feel Loved When' art displayed at The Gallery - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta Herald

'I Feel Loved When' art displayed at The Gallery - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta Herald

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It's all about the good bacteria!

Soap+water+friction= clean hands

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704621.html

And don't forget to allow hands to dirty as much as possible throughout the day.
Especially with good clean soil.
It's of vital importance.
http://simplemom.net/let-your-kids-get-dirty/

Still not sold on dirt?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14761417

How books were made: Pictoral Dictionary

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

Children at our feet.....

In examining the ethics of early childhood care, and encouraging adulthood success.
Taking into consideration the correlation behind early childhood bonds, and emotional success of adults.....adoption that creates such large distances between a child and their known community, which includes spirit, this distance should be treated with great awareness and care. Distance not necessarily physical.Each step of the path must be accounted for. Birth. Birthmother.

What does an intact model of "open adoption" look like? Always different, depending upon the story of the origin of life. What components are fluid? What components will always be present.

We know who we are by knowing where we have come from. We know how to address our issues, by understanding the context within which they were formed. We develop significant attachments to the circumstances of our lives. We root, so to speak, and we root fast. Separating from that which is familiar can be overwhelmingly stressful. Separating from that which is of the spirit is overwhelming for such little beings. If it is preverbal trauma, they have no language for the emotion.

How do we frame such stories, how do we tend to the spirit of the child, to the spirit of their grandfather and mother. How do we hold their story as whole, and perfect.

Jazz

dress hunt

Found:
vintage dress.
strong odor of blue dye rendered unwearable.
royal blue flowers, olive green.
Adding, layering, covering, blending
velvet. hand dyed cotton. commercial cotton, acrylic, rayon.

Laura's Tulips

"There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone" - Sherman Alexie

Red and Orange tulip sewn by my great, great, grandmother.
The stitches are so even, the fibers of the fabric tacked cleanly into place.
Building around her work. Adding to the garden 70 years later.....


I am no doubt an impatient sewer...
My elder was anything but.
Her stitches catch my eye every few seconds.
Uniform and delicate. My hand moves in half
formed gestures.  Waving hello,  like a child.