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Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness

—Han Kang, The Vegetarian l ph: KRL

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

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Ghost Ship, by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924)

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if my husband left to go fight a boywar then go on a boyquest with his boys id make him take a buzzfeed am i gay test asap (come home, penelope and telemachus miss you babe)

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Martin Buxbaum

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kelly louise judd

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Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

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Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

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all the better to eat you with

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sea, swallow me

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The trick is to be more curious than you're scared.

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A practice is something you built, it’s very organic like an ecosystem of rituals, knowledge, words, material objects, ressources. Like the branches of a tree it sometimes dies and sometimes branches out, you builds more in one direction or choose to work more in another one. Even if you feel like you are stagnating in your practice, or you don’t know what direction to choose, you have to start somewhere. And with time you build your practice like the gardener maintains their garden.

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did I not love them best? I who birthed, who nursed, who killed them?

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“The beauty of water, the dwelling of nymphs.”

— Anacreon, from 7 Greeks (tr. Guy Davenport)

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Not a gradient yarn! The warp is made up of 12 different yarns, that we add to the warp 8 at a time. We’d do six passes on the warping mill, then drop one color and add another, going down the rainbow gradient. We also didn’t prevent crossovers while making the warp, to make the semi-random pattern

Here’s the link for the pattern, though the guild member running the project made some changes

I helped thread my first group project with the guild! It was my first time using a loom that wasn’t a frame loom :) We’re making random exchange towels and I’m very excited for when the setup finishes and it’s my turn to weave my towel. I plan on wearing the bandana I wove for Kirke while I weave, and the completed towel will probably go on Her shrine 🥰

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I helped thread my first group project with the guild! It was my first time using a loom that wasn’t a frame loom :) We’re making random exchange towels and I’m very excited for when the setup finishes and it’s my turn to weave my towel. I plan on wearing the bandana I wove for Kirke while I weave, and the completed towel will probably go on Her shrine 🥰