by StaceyW | Apr 13, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
You know how a day can sometimes take on a theme of its own? Well today’s the day for persistence, accumulation, or little by little catchee monkey. I weighed myself this morning – something I knew I shouldn’t do really – but I decided I needed to know how much extra...
by StaceyW | Apr 12, 2009 | Art, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Weaving
I am intrinsically a loner, except when I’m with other weavers. It’s not that I’m socially inept – far from it, I hope – but that I choose whose company I wish to be in. I can occasionally do ‘hail fellow, well met’ types of conversation, but general girly...
by StaceyW | Mar 29, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
Time is something we feel we have so little of, and we frantically rush around trying to get things done in the time that we have. But of course, time is an artificial construct – a man-made construct which is supposed to be there to be a framework. Yet, as with so...
by StaceyW | Mar 26, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
I’ve recently been posting about listening to what’s going on in nature around me when I’m walking, and I was really pleased to see a whole section in the 2nd edition of 2009 of TPM – The Philosophers’ Magazine – about coming to our...
by StaceyW | Mar 22, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Travel
Somehow a city seen from a few hundred yards up at night is more alive to me than one seen during the day. During the day, the skyscrapers shout for attention, their static solidity commanding your gaze. At night it is the movement of lights that gives the city its...
by StaceyW | Mar 15, 2009 | Life, Philosophy
You know how suddenly everything grows and puts on its coat of green? Well this week in my corner of the world, spring has suddenly sprung. Leaves are popping up all over the place, and suddenly the world looks less bare and forlorn. It’s amazing how it...
