Sunday lovely rain, art and reading

We had gentle rain last evening and overnight, very welcome since I can't keep up very well with watering st the moment. My outside plants are looking happier now

Yesterday's reading was a brief novel

Written in the first person plural, unusually, it's an account in glimpses of the lives of young Japanese women sent as brides to Japanese men in the US in the 1930s. 

Their hopes of a good life were dashed by the discovery that their spouses had lied about their situations.  In reality they were not white collar workers with suburban homes, but farm laborers expecting a bride to be an extra unpaid field hand regardless of her previous life or physical strength.

It broadens with Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese people, and their children's assimilation as Americans, discarding their heritage to fit in. It's brief, poignant and well worth reading.

There's women's art, today, with a textile theme

And closer to home a Pilot pen drawing of Resting Toes, sounds like a Chinese exercise.

Typical view recently as I followed doctor's orders to take it easy, amid hand stitched pillows.

Happy day everyone, take it easy, too,, and keep pushing for better days