Tying Up Loose Ends

Day 57: 

Lots of little project bits today: Some granny squares, hearts, and flowers. Yesterday, I spent a very enjoyable morning with friends, playing with paper, making  a little scrappy book. I’ve been shaping and drying mandarin skins into tiny bowls—I want to sand the edge of this one. The dragonfly afghan is not mine. A friend of a friend bought it on Etsy, and the ends are unraveling in several places! I’m going to try to stabilize it and weave the ends in firmly—a good reminder that the finishing details are as important as the main work of the craft itself.

Also, a few photos of one of my favorite cherry trees, and the little guys who put the cat in catnap.

Carry the garbage outside, but, damn! The moon!
—found on a strip of paper cut from a magazine
a golden shovel
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

How much weight in your heart can you carry?
Is it like the ratio of the swallow to the coconut, the
ocean to its swirling patch of garbage?
The numbers will always remain outside

my comprehension. What does 62 million mean, but
62 million too many? We sing sin, and we damn
the wrong heretics without seeing how many foxes are in the
henhouse, pretending to be  roosters in the shadow of the moon.

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