prayer for the 21st century

May gardens be wild, like jungles,

May nature never be tamed,

May dangers create of us heroes

May fears always have names

May the mountains stand to remind us

Of what it means to be young,

May we be outlived by our daughters,

May we be outlived by our sons.

by John Marsden

Tomorrow is Canada Day and in my country we will be celeberating 150 years.  Canada is a young country with a history older than 150 years....short memories, high hopes.  

Prayer Flag For Canada at this link   (John Marsden is an Australian poet)

prayer flag for Canada

 I finished this today

 in time for International Women's Day

 for Canada

a prayer for women,
for our grand daughters

the old hankies were embroidered with circles and edged with red thread, and then buttonholed to a linen backing cloth

 the backing cloth was then removed, revealing the inner - ness

 I washed it and hung it on the line

then I blocked it by pinning it to the wall
stretching and smoothing with my hands instead of ironing

and noticed that some of the threads were bleeding.

that's ok