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About Cynthia

I am a textile artist, embroiderer, wood burner, costumer, painter, and weaver who sees magic and change in the chain stitch and a well done Palestrina knot. I wish I had more control over the ways of the human world but alas, all I can control are my actions and my attitude in life and the consistency of my stitches. And sometimes even that doesn’t pan out as hoped and I must rip rip rip.

Spring Redecorating

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A few changes around the ol’ homestead. Must be all the spring stuff I’m doing at home bleeding over into my virtual home…

As you have noticed the appearance has changed. I have also added a couple of new permanent pages. Comments. Events. Textile Gallery.

The other thing I’m doing is going through the archives of my old blog and bringing over posts and photos that I know I will want to access again one day. There are lots of “new” posts in the categories for the times when you are bored to death at work and simply must fritter it away reading about my little life. *wink*

I am a tad concerned about the Comments page. The creation of this page is not directed towards any one person or incident. I’ve simply become very aware that I have a dangerous hot button about certain things. The best thing I felt for me to do is to let you all know that the hot button exists and to give you a map that allows you to walk around the land mine. It is my fervent hope that you will not take this personally nor take it as a direction to simply not communicate with me. That would be a very sad thing as I’m so enjoying getting to know so many cool and interesting folks and staying connected with folks I’ve known for some time.

I have found that it’s best to understand where the boundary fence is BEFORE you crash into it in the dark.

See how hard it is to see? Even in the daylight? So I thought I’d give you all a red flag too.

Beltaine Hilarity

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Something Pandora wrote in her blog today sparked a memory of the most recent OLTOEAS Beltaine that I attended.

There was a largish maypole in the center of a lovely grassy space. There were plenty of ribbons for everyone who wanted to participate. What was so funny was that there must have been 80 – 100 people who wanted to participate. It was the slowest maypole dance I have ever seen. The pole and ribbons simply weren’t long enough to facilitate space between each person allowing for a dance. It was a sardine maypole, all those people in a big circular cluster moving like turtles. it was sometimes 3-4 people deep trying to intertwine and move in opposite directions. I wish I could have taken a picture because I’m finding it difficult to illustrate with words how truly hilarious it was to watch. It was this dance that helped me see what fun it can be to be a merchant even if you aren’t selling anything. You get to watch the circus.

Eventually some of the participants saw the futility of it all and left and things loosened up a bit but I think it took 30 minutes at least for them to make their way around and wrap that pole. one step pause pause two step pause pause three step pause pause…. People could have been having sexual congress and I bet no one would have known… But there were children in the dance so I doubt that happened although I bet a few folks thought about it.

The Beholder

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According to physicist Paul Steinhardt, “Good science creates two challenging puzzles for each puzzle it resolves.” I propose that we expand that formula to make it apply to life in general: Good decision-making about anything at all creates two challenging puzzles for each puzzle it resolves. That should be your guiding meditation, Cancerian. You are currently at the height of your ability to wrestle long-standing dilemmas into more satisfying configurations. I expect that whenever you capitalize on this potential, you will conjure up fresh riddles that will energize you for weeks.

I mentioned the other day that I’ve been moving through this interesting place, experience, change in myself of late. I spoke about it at the Jeshua session duringt the Q&A.

I spoke of this feeling of detachment in my own life. That I feel very often that I’m watching and observing what is going on with no sense of attachment or emotion. Not to say that I never feel emotion these days, what are the odds of THAT? But it feels as though, unless there is already a strong emotional attachment to a situation such as SNIB or my family member’s relapse, that I am oddly no longer emotionally attached to my life and the events in it, or more accurately that it is waning away. I asked Jeshua if he could speak to me about that. He asked if what I wanted was a progress report. Yes, exactly. Continue reading →

More on the Greenwood Tarot

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There are 4 decks available in the world for sale ranging from $400 to over $1300. The book only is available for $150. Oi. Too rich for my blood. It appears that no one is interested in publishing the deck again. So what to do. I went to the illustrators website but her email bounces. What to do. I found a website, which I linked to yesterday. Between the website forum and illustrator’s site, I was able to get a copy of the handbook (without layouts) and the images in a largish size.

I’ve created a pdf of the handbook and am working on creating the same with the cards. The card pdf can be printed out in color on cardstock or glued to cardstock later. I’m determined to have this deck.