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Little Experiments, Picking Up a Languishing Piece, & Moistening Tea

My back is better. Nerve pain is in the rearview window. I’m engaging with my body in a new-ish way- listening better, and softening. It’s been cold here in Vermont. I’m doing what I can to not feel like a dried up raison.

This tea blend I made maybe will help? It is beautiful to look at and to smell. Thyme, Echinacea, Marshmallow Root, Milky Oats, Rose Petals, Linden… Nature and her gifts are endless. How is it that we abuse her so and assume she will always provide for us?

In my studio I’ve gotten back to a tapestry that has been woefully neglected yet is so important to me. What is that about?

And at home my tables are covered with projects, including little experiments like these, that are igniting my imagination for pieces that may or may not come to be woven. We will see. This tension that always exists between all of the ideas and the limits of time is a character in the story of living.

Wherever you are, I wish for you warmth and peace.

Until next time…


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A New Year Wish

The shift from one calendar year to the next feels more significant to me than my birthday. Collectively, we all make the leap into a new start, a fresh chance, a shifted idea of what is possible. Resolutions are hopes put in the form of determinations, and in that is something beautiful. Hope itself is beautiful. It’s what I see and feel as I watch people cheer and and cry, hug and kiss, dance and sing as the ball drops and confetti rains upon revelers.

I love hope.

Hope, like creativity, needs tending, like a fire. Hope starts with an idea or an image of how something might be better. Hope is maintained with discipline. This is where things fall apart for many of us. All I want to say on that is, be kind to yourself and be realistic about the disciplined steps you choose to tend to hope. With small bits of tinder, we can keep the mighty fire of an idea alive and moving forward.

I wish that for us all in this coming year~ that we keep our hopes alive and tended to with love, tenderness, and determination.

Always,
bradie