#87 - Old ties hold fast

On an early summer afternoon, on the campus of Indiana University, decades ago, a woman departing with her husband, for a new job in Florida, leaned out the window of an El Camino to say good bye. We'll keep in touch, we assured her. She looked pained, and cried plaintively, "I'll never see you again!"

And I have not seen here since. But you never know. I like to keep an open mind.

Thus, I have seen a number of other people from my past, and I am not surprised any more at how easy it is to pick up the conversation.

I have been back in touch with a pal from grad school for over two years now via Instagram, email, text, and phone. So, I was delighted when she said she would be able to make a short stop here on her trip from the mid-west across county on a rail pass.

Although we've lived different lives in different states, I feel we are like family - art school created a bond. It is, as I was thinking about last week, an idea about shared values. We have a mutual set of overlapping ideals.

Here we are at Snoqualmie Falls. So much water! (So little sunshine!) Hi everybody!

Did a whirled tour from Eastern Washington to the salt water.
It's fun to show off my world - and kind of reassuring - Do you see what I see?
Yes!
Here, we can see the trees and the forest, too - because I think these aspen groves are really all clones from roots and constitute one super large organism. Something to check out.

Next - hill side with pines east of the mountains, it will not be green for long. Lots of drift logs on the Washington coast at Deception Pass.

I am still working on the commission - which I will share next week. In the meantime I have been doing some quilting and knitting. The quilt in the background was started decades ago and a friend helped me finish binding it together. I have been doing the hand quilting. Also made a baby sweater and am working on a blanket not for the cat.

Below - a new item in the web-store. Click photo to see description.

Happy Juneteenth! People are celebrating Freedom Day. Can we live up to the promise?
The late Congressman Elijah Cummings, said, “Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.”

We forge ahead if we keep putting one foot in front of the other in hope for a better future. Opal Lee is ninety-five years old and is considered the 'grandmother of Juneteenth.' Follow the link to read about her activism - and walking.

I am now as always, and with gratitude, yours,
Ann
June 20, 2022

The garden is wet and overgrown, but the foxgloves are foxin' it up and I love them so much. We have some rabbits. You can see from the diagram the weather we've been having - cold and wet - hard to keep waiting for the relief of sunshine.