It’s the peace before school clamor. Sparrows galore! Some robins came round to our backyard water feature too. We haven’t seen them in ages.
I’m hating how stubbornly the turtle quilt is refusing to be finished. It isn’t just me, I swear!
I wasn’t really up for a Labor Day rally today but after reading Timothy Snyder this morning how could I not? It’s at four in Waltham.
My sign reads: IS HE DEAD YET?
Which speaks both to how desperately we all want him gone and also to how much a creature of the internet I am.
Timothy Snyder here.
PS the bullshit occupation of South Station is coming. It’s being staged in a city north of here, Beverly. All week I’ve seen locals posting pix of South Station. How clean it is. How safe they feel there, etc.
I love how all the turtles are headed to the top… maybe a few ripples would tie them all together? in any case it is a great quilt. love it!
Interesting idea.
The sparrows make me happy. Yes, Snyder is excellent today, as always. I hope the rally brings a lot of encouragement, to you and others.
That was Stephanie. I’ve become this “observant” person lately, with no place to enter my name/email as before.
Thanks for letting me know. I should perhaps back WordPress up and reboot or something.
Yes, it’s happening on all WordPress blogs I follow. Oh well . . . Stephanie
thx for Timothy Snyder link, I’m learning so much….stuff I wish I didn’t have to, but hey, all part of where we are at these days
Good luck with your turtle struggles, I have no advice to offer I’m afraid, other than ‘relax…… it will happen, eventually’
Saskia
Dee~ thanks for the sparrows – so full of happiness. We occasionally see a junko on the wall, but it’s been too hot to walk. Fun watching your turtle cloth process.
Nancy
Those birds make me so happy!
I love the changes to your turtle quilt and love @Ginny’s suggestion. Why are we seeing so many sparrows right now? yeah, maybe migrating? I could google it… xo
Ripples or maybe bubbles?
damn. I just wrote the most brilliant response and, since I’ve been able to successfully send replies lately I didn’t back up my writing here.
Poof, gone. “the connection to the server was reset while the page was loading”. I will try again, more briefly 🙂
1) I benefit greatly from your dissertations on the state of the world. While I was on the beach at the Cape with a friend who stays atop the news and dives deep on all facets… I have been immersed and losing my mooring. Thank you again for keeping me in sight of what really matters and what is confusing the hell out of you as well.
2) The turtle quilt: I think it’s worth taking your time with. I love your black border in its “imperfection” that so brilliantly to contains the chaos of the plants matter and turtle life. Maybe some light blues, even flat blues with the shapes that depict the sky reflecting on the water’s surface? Something like that might give the eye some places to rest in subtle way?
I spent time trying to paint the sea from the beach. So, I was just getting to that point of the layers of deep color and then suddenly noticed the reflections on the surface before the wave rolls in – the beach dropped off where I was painting, so the waves were small and short.
xo – M
Good to hear. I worry that with all of us being awash in various substacks and YouTube sources and publications that my two cents are a burden. Who needs more? Mostly I write for my sanity. To set a marker. Or something.
Yeah this quilt. I was three seams from being done, added to one edge to line things up and that created a whole new set of imbalances. It’s too big but has to stay this big at this point. I like the idea of resting spots and more blue. Thanks for that.
did that make any sense? I’m of the shape of the small surface dents and rises on the water – light blue shapes – small, dispersed, getting larger toward the wave breaks.
I’d love to see your paintings from the weekend. Your descriptions in words are to die for.