Looking ahead, there's time to go online and sign up for this March textile presentation, see the TMASC email contact in the image, or search online.
and Tatter has some embroidery classes from all over the world, taught by the experts from the culture
Self care gets in here,too, stitching and other creation with thread being a slow, meditative process.
In other thinking about self care, urgently needed around here, I've started a new morning process, involving no screen time.
Before I go downstairs, I straighten the bed, arrange whatever needs to be charging through the day so I can go to sleep by audiobook, unplug the heating pad which is timed for a couple of hours medium heat at night, then do various small tasks in the bathroom involving pills and combs and lotion.
Then downstairs I organize breakfast, today a banana sandwich and coffee, switch on various lights, it's usually still dark, then retire to the sofa. At that point I finally look at a screen.
This interval between waking and looking at email and news has made a big difference to my coping ability, amazingly so. For one thing I'm not getting ocular migraines with vision disturbance, and I'm not instantly depressed and anxious.
Evidently simple tasks are a defence against feeling helpless. Who knew. I used to catch up in bed with email and various social media. Not such a good idea, it turns out.
It means Future Me has a nice environment to retire to at night. I also leave the kitchen swept and clean so Morning Me has a similarly nice morning scene. It's surprising what a difference it makes to a picky, picky person. I know everyone isn't as bothered by their surroundings, but you go with the temperament you have.
It must be clear that I'm a person born to live alone!
I watched a rug presentation this morning, dealer Susan Gomersall for the Hajii Baba Club,which commanded my indifference, to quote the Great Jane.
I very much liked the images of weavers at work.
Mainly it was very short and not a lot of slides. They were good, but I'd have liked more information about the meaning and significance of the designs. Also a narrator who doesn't read, head down, from a script. But I'm picky. I'll continue watching their offerings.
And in further self, and neighbor, care, there's banana bread with walnuts and cocoa nibs. Mainly because I forgot to order bread and this is a sort of bread.
Nice loaf. This may be, will be, shared around.
Happy day everyone, enjoy your day the best way you can. We may have another giant snowstorm tomorrow, so I've notified the cleaning family that if Monday's buried, we won't be plowed out, so don't push, just reschedule. Again!
And I have a doctor's appointment Tuesday which may not happen. Again.
Nobody's burying ME, sez Billie the Pup.
