"Mama, your boobies are low and my boobies are high ... I taped this quote to the mirror in my studio 5 years ago and I look at it every day. It makes me laugh. Ask a woman what she wishes were different about her body and she will tell you: a less jiggly rear, bigger/smaller boobs, longer legs, thinner arms, a flatter stomach, pretty knees ... Ask children this same question and they will be brutally honest about their wants. They will look you in the eye and answer: Wings. A tail. Eyes that can see all the way to the other side of the earth. Rainbow hair. Fingernails colored red-pink-yellow, red-pink-yellow. A permanently attached spy kit. Right here. Ask people what they wish were different about their lives, and many will say: More time. And different about the world? More peace. I'd say this, too. Below are images* from this last month, during which I've tried to make time and tried to be peaceful. I'll be writing soon about a maybe-big project I'm all fired up about, and will (gulp) ask for something I'd like to have, but I need to focus on that ask and get my thoughts straight first. (Maybe you'll discover you have this something and would very much like to get rid of it -- No, no, no, it's not a jiggly rear, I already have one of those. Geez, people). I'm looking for some specific old things, and I'll be giving them a voice. You could help if you'd like. More on that to come. Meanwhile, it is 3 degrees Fahrenheit in Anchorage.
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11/19/2015 03:32:59 am
Can't wait to get your request. I have old things. Love the kid quotes. Thanks a lot for your post.
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11/20/2015 05:31:15 am
Sharon,
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11/19/2015 04:20:32 am
After reading this, I wish I had written down more of that stuff. I do remember keeping a file folder (in the days before computers) of clever things they said or did, and had planned to illustrate a small book, one day...sometime. Would've been cute. Never happened and that file disappeared somehow in an ocd cleaning-frenzy moment. But you've made me, for this moment realize that I better enjoy that one of my children is in the house right now...for all it's worth.
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11/20/2015 05:33:48 am
Roxanne,
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Dohnn
11/19/2015 08:03:18 am
I would wish for all the cars to go away, and the world could just slow down. Who knows, if we all stopped rushing around, we might see where we are and what we have, and get to know our family and neighbors.
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11/20/2015 05:40:12 am
Dohnn,
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11/19/2015 02:01:59 pm
I don't know how you do it, but the photos of your life are in the SAME color schematic as your quilts. How do you orchestra that? And YES. I would like to help you.
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11/20/2015 05:42:54 am
Maria,
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Amy MeissnerArtist in Anchorage, Alaska, sometimes blogging about the collision of history, family & art, with the understanding that none exists without the other. Categories
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