It's summer

It is summer

and I have been immersed in family

it's a good busy

The kids are doing the cooking and also the planning of what to cook.

The grand kids are doing the cannon ball diving, the fishing and the comic book reading.

I'm working on a large piece.

It has a wool central area, dyed with plants and stitched in several colours of thread

surrounded by linen damask, pieced with raw edges, strengthened with big stitches.

life and death are not opposites
death is enfolded in life's centre

'when I keep my heart open, when I let it be touched
I learn that it is botttomless, it is vast, limitless

 I discover how much warmth and gentleness is there,

 how much space'
(pema chodron idea)

the Alaska family was here for 11 days and time stopped for me while I watched them