How much of my time is spent thinking about style, fashion, clothing, decorating, fabrics, pattern, quilting…. So what if those are ungrand concerns, “feminine” concerns…. the visual statements that have moved me—many of them—were made from small ideas, unpretentious ones that were big after all.
- So you really enjoy living here.
I believe that in order to have a good daily life, we need to incorporate the extraordinary to help renew our daily life. In that sense, living doesn't have to be convenient. In fact, the more inconvenient it is, the more it leads to interesting discoveries every day. Each day is a discovery, each day
is a learning experience, and I experience this type of richness every day.
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| Photo by Devin Oktar Yalkin |
Plants have several survival strategies, like going underground, or packing all they need to live into small buds or seeds, but animals are especially exposed, Dr. Kimmerer, the plant ecologist, said.
“If we die, we die. We don’t have buds and seeds,” she said. “There are beautiful metaphorical parallels, what can go on if we do die — to me I think about stories at that point. Stories and memory and spirit can go on.”
“The most important thing is to hold that tiny spark of life, if it is in a bud, in a seed, that is our work, to hold on to life, so when spring comes back, there can be growth. If you fail at that, spring doesn’t matter,” she said. “That seems like a Covid teaching to me.”
- Beautiful article in The New York Times by Elisabeth Diaz, 20th December 2020: "How We Survive Winter"
