Here's where blogista Anne will be next weekend, taking part in a singing rally
Field and Fen
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
Singing for freedom, and walking for spring
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Art will save us all
Here's a stitching made by someone, sorry I've misplaced the reference, with a quotation from a brave writer
Friday, March 28, 2025
Misfits and another try
Haleem arrived on the dot. I think he has an early shift, since when he's delivering, it's mid morning, very handy.
And here you see some future planning. Makings of a lasagna which will be baked and frozen, to use when I get home after Helen II. Plenty of cheese, too, and bread, also chunked chicken breast, sandwich makings. Carrots and spinach probably to make a salad with sandwiches.
I need to think ahead a bit because my delivery day is the same as the surgery day, so I may stock up ahead and skip ordering that week. There's time to figure this out.
This afternoon is another try at the doctor's appointment to get clearance for surgery. Next week another. Following week two more. It's all go around here. I certainly can't complain about neglect.
Breaking news: doctor says good to go, pending cardiologist opinion. So far so good.
Happy day everyone, tink ahed. The Thanksgiving cactus is blooming again, so it's now an Easter cactus, I guess
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Fiftyfiftyone, and darkness
On the subject of light
Fiftyfiftyone is a grassroots movement, people from all fifty states united in one movement, resistance of all kinds. We can do this.
About darkness, the literal kind, I'm waking very early for me, around five am, and getting up to have breakfast while I watch the dawn. Simple pleasure. With only myself to attend to, I can rest later if I need to, so getting up very early is possible.
I'm continuing my second glove today, with an audio book.
And reading later
I've read this before, a few years ago, and it's still good reading. The war in question is WWI. My mother used to talk about the wonderful hot summer before war broke out, and my dad joined up.
They married in 1918, after he'd been wounded in the battle of the Somme, then spent long months in rehab learning to walk again. He was in a country house, as described in The Hazelbourne Ladies, where the family home is to be used as a rehab hospital. Downton Abbey likewise, if you remember. Except my dad did it in real life. Aged 22.
Happy day, everyone, enough looking back, now it's looking ahead and working for better days. Starting for me with a message to the Attorney General of Wisconsin asking about the illegality of M**k's offering money for votes in the upcoming Supreme Court election.
And yesterday I was looking for a way to message SecDef Hegseth, ended up reporting the intelligence blunder as a technical problem! And got a solemn acknowledgment. I was thinking of the old mechanic joke about the car, needing to fix the nut behind the wheel.
Honestly, if you can't have a bit of fun with resistance, what are we fighting for?
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, Textiles and Tea, accidental art
Tuesday brought a very good physical therapy session, interesting stuff including a balance mat, that was fun, and I need resistance bands. He's an imaginative practitioner, creating new interesting moves for me.
Then on to Textiles and Tea with Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, a Kentucky-based artist whose work involves weaving, along with other approaches. He uses mylar film, holographic material, novelty fabrics, microfilm, aluminum flashing and all kinds of unlikely materials. He creates enormous works, including two story high installations.
He addresses politics, religion, COVID losses, computer hardware, light and color, and you'll see how exciting his work is.
And here's part of the the studio where this work happens.
He's a powerful artist, with a huge voice, needed now more than ever.
At home I caught this little accidental art shot in the kitchen last night