by StaceyW | Mar 10, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology
The last few days have gone by in a bit of a whirl. I’ve been so busy, interleaving different activities in between each other. This morning, the rain caused me to stop and reflect. I was walking with Charlie on our usual walk, thinking about all the things I would...
by StaceyW | Mar 8, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
One of the lessons that weaving teaches is patience. All kinds of patience – the ‘take a deep breath and count to 10’ patience when something easily preventable happens; the ‘am I dedicated enough to the quality of this piece that I unweave those picks to sort...
by StaceyW | Mar 2, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology
I’ve been reading an old book by an author called Eric Williams. He was a pilot in the Second World War and his book is called The Tunnel, and is about escaping from captivity. His first confinement was in a small cell and brought back to my mind Nelson Mandela’s...
by StaceyW | Feb 15, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
I love words. They have the power to harm or to heal, to empower or to reduce, to inspire or to deflate. I try to write a journal most days and I do that in the mornings, before the day’s tasks and “must dos” get in the way. It’s a stream of consciousness thing –...
by StaceyW | Feb 9, 2009 | Philosophy, Weaving
Views change in different conditions. What an ambiguous statement. Do I mean views as in opinions? Or views as in vistas? Actually this morning I mean vistas. I was walking Charlie along a familiar route, but the weather was very misty and very cold – snow topped...
by StaceyW | Feb 1, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
One of the books I am reading at the moment is called 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit. It’s full of different exercises you can try to see deeper than the surface of things. The second exercise in the book – Empty a Word of Its...
