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Handwoven by Mayan women in Guatemala. Every time I come here I buy pieces, and especially now, as an American, glad to give my $ here.

If moths are so attracted to the light, just get up in the day.

Do you know what they called Germans in the 1930s who didn't really love Hitler deep in their hearts, but went along with Nazi stuff, and did things like Nazi salutes, because they enjoyed how it upset groups the Nazis targeted and other non-Nazis?

Nazis. They called people who did that Nazis.

Anyone here ever lived in Antigua, Guatemala? Or San Miguel de Allende, Mexico?

Fix your hearts or die. YES.
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Trying to balance focused resistance in existential terror with making beautiful things is hard.

“beauty is not synonymous with escapism; it’s a form of truth telling.”

YES: “...so much of what is shared is cruel. You give people a voice, and they feel that what should be shared is critical. There are too many mean voices. There's more envy in the world than I cared to realize. Never before has it been so important that you know where not to look."--Lois Smith

Dionisio Point Cowl underway with Jill Draper mini-skeins, one of several on-the-go creative projects during this bleak, trying time.

**Good News**

Democrats won two special elections tonight and defended control of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.

Change of plans post-election. Bright color wash quilt will instead be swirls of red. Blood, women’s blood, vulnerable people’s lives, women and children in Gaza and now Lebanon. I made a quilt once during a hard scary time and it was soaked in tears. Tears now too, but with rage.

#MondayMotivation for redheads....