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Emigrate: A found poem and photograph

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

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Emigrate Go in the Spring and take up a Free Farm of 160 Acres in Western Canada. (close to Schools, Churches, Railways and Markets) The Richest Land on Earth. The best climate. The fullest enjoyment of health. Men of 18 years and over get… Continue Reading “Emigrate: A found poem and photograph”

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Considering who you wanted to be

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

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Firefighter, archeologist, mad scientist, doctor, nurse, prime minister, teacher, writer, movie star, policeman. “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, the encouragement of grade one ambitions most likely thwarted by bad luck or practical considerations once coddling questions disappeared. Left in… Continue Reading “Considering who you wanted to be”

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Studio time. Making marks with the paints I cooked up earlier this week.
This is the songwriting studio, Paradise, at our home on Gabriola Island. A friend of ours built this during the pandemic and it mostly gets used for extra sleeping space during parties. I just cleaned it after a summer of use for our next songwriter-in-residence @kimberley_macgregor this afternoon and now I'm hanging out remembering how lovely this space really is. Newly acquired artwork by @c.r._avery visible in the photo. We are blessed by the creative energies of others at Birdsong Gabriola. #songwriting #writing #birdsonggabriola #writingresidency #gabriolaisland
Making paint out of natural dyes and creating samples of my colour pallette tonight. I think I'm going to wait until I have more natural light to work with these!
I never swim this late in the season but I had some bad juju on me from the weekend that needed washing off. So clear, the water, so cool and still. I swam to the reef and back, disturbing the sea birds perching there. It was the only way. #writingtheendtimes #gabriolaisland
Finished Module 2 of the @maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes course last night. ⁠
Excitement in the dye studio this morning when I lifted these test pieces out of their pots and discovered how well the dye adhered to the painted and stamped mordant on the cotton fabric! Dyed with buckthorn (yellow) and cutch (brown) - I'll be interested to see what these look like when dry. On Sunday I plan to dye the "finished" pieces from this @maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes module, which have been painted and stamped with mordant already... and will share more process pictures when I'm done!
Some of my printing blocks for Module 2 of the @maiwaschooloftextiles class I am taking. I am excited to show results after I have finished this process later this week! #maiwasupply #maiwaworkshop #maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes #textileprocess #textilestudio
The canning kitchen is getting another workout today. This outdoor set up really was a fantastic investment, especially loving it on the mild fall days. #canningseason #foodpreserving #Canning #pressurecanning #foodsecurity #fillingthepantry
For the first time in three years I stepped into the Wall Street Zendo this morning. I showed up in person to practice with my #zencommunity and deliver a talk on what brought me to Zen practice. It was a deeply moving morning of reflection and kinship for me, a reminder of how much we need each other on our path through this lifetime. #zenbuddhism #spirituallife
Made myself a surface for textile printing as per the instructions from @maiwaschooloftextiles out of a piece of scrap plywood, an old yoga mat, some canvas that used to cover a futon, and an old bedsheet. Very happy with how it turned out. This is probably the last day it will be this clean.
This is the single full-sized plum that grew on my very young multi-grafted plum tree this year. It's a Brooks (a variety of prune plum) and I can attest that it was very tasty. ⁠
My pile of fabrics from Tuesday has been scoured, dried, ironed, and divided according to the course modules set out by @maiwaschooloftextiles. My weekend project is to build a printing surface out of some plywood and an old yoga mat! ⁠

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