Monthly Archives: December 2009

New Year’s Molt

Molting is a hell of a process–uncomfortable, exhausting, even ugly–but aren’t we ready to be shed of those vestiges and welcome whatever comes next? Continue reading

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Giving summer for Christmas

It’s the summer harvest at its ripest peak, sealed and delivered for the holidays. Continue reading

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Filed under Feasting, Making things, Putting Up

The Winter Garden: Waiting

The garden is dead; long live the garden. Continue reading

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Filed under Gardening

Each little inch

I love the smell of a hand-knitted garment: a mammal combination of lanolin and the scent of the knitter, her lotion, soap, skin–it’s the odor of life itself. Continue reading

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Filed under Making things