Textiles and Tea, handwritten book

Thank you all for the support yesterday and encouragement. I let the comment about transportation stand in case it's useful to any readers though none applies to me.  

County programs here stay within county lines, nothing for people not disabled, and  with my doctors in three counties, two of them not my own, crickets, no crossing county lines! 

I'm  convetsant with all this from the years of caregiving. It takes months for even a disabled senior to be issued with the id # that enables bookings, then it's a vehicle that takes hours because of other passenger stops, and wheelchair loading to get there. No guarantee of being at appointments on time. A bit awkward. We ended up never using it. 

The heat's back this week, up to 100f again, so I was out early, watering, and saying nice things to my butterfly bushes, plural. Really happy with them.

Yesterday's reading was

and here's a very appropriate and timely thought 

Recommended by Mary Anne, and downloaded on my Kindle where it appeared in reduced, sideways, form! Not quite adapted I think. And since my ancient Kindle Long ago lost the capacity to change font size, this is how I read it!

Through my page sized enlarger. That worked, though the blotchy handwriting defeated me here and there. 

I got the gist  and it's a wise little book about friendships and cake!  Probably best to read in book form if you can get to the library. And yes, do read it.

Yesterday's Textiles and Tea was just lovely

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She's from Guatemala, weaving the very fine sheer work traditional from her village. She can recognize which villages and towns pieces are from, since they each have traditional patterns and motifs. 

They still build their own loons from wood they cut locally.  Nothing written, the designs worked by mental planning then counting. She noted that younger Guatemalan people are not wanting the slow and poorly paid work of backstrap weaving, and is anxious to teach in the US in order to preserve the art.

She eventually married an American Peace Corps worker who came to her village and now lives in Tarpon Springs, Florida, where dhe teaches . If you're anywhere near there, what an opportunity. Though she says she has to get her wood from Home Depot now!

The viewers urged her to be in touch with WARP (Weave a Real Peace) because she needs a market for her work. She's also probably a great teacher, cheerful and personable.  So it was a valuable session, everyone got something out of it. 

Happy everyone, adapting is the thing. Darwin would agree.

Did you read about the Ukrainian civilians taking our Russian invader vehicles with diy home 3D printed dromes?  Cool. 

And speaking of fighting back, yesterday Kansas swept away the attemot to remove reproductive care protection from the State constitution. Go, Kansas!  GOP, you upset the wrong people there. 

And they wete shamed into passing the PACT Act, healthcare for veterans whose health was fanagef by exposure to burn pits. They didn't count on those fist bumps going viral after they suddenly voted against in out of spite. . Nor the national shaming backlash.  Slow learners.