When one has a broken heart and feeling rather depressed about the loss of a close friend it helps to have a three-year-old. ^_^
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jason is gone.
He is not here. He will no longer visit or live near me again. He will never see Clover grow up or go to the gardens with us again. There will be no more dinners at Temari or bike rides along the bay. No more sunsets or frozen yogurt or anime. He will never finish his PhD and become Dr. Bennett. He will never paint or read a great book. He will never sip chai or enjoy great conversation. We will never go to Santa Cruz. He will never be my housemate. I can never hug him or tell him how amazing he is because now he is gone and I did not even get to say goodbye.
decembers with emma
It is fun for me to see how much she has grown!
Ruth Asawa at the Oakland museum
Ruth Asawa is so awesome. I love all of her work and was so happy to see this piece at the Oakland Museum. She led a very fascinating life!
In the 1950s, Asawa experimented with crocheted wire sculptures of abstract forms that appear as three-dimensional line drawings. She learned the basic technique while in Toluca, Mexico, where villagers used a similar technique to make baskets from galvanized wire. By 1962, Asawa began experimenting with tied wire sculptures of images rooted in nature, geometry, and abstraction. -Wikipedia
I was surprised to read in her bio on Wikipedia that she and her family were forced to live at the Santa Anita racetrack for most of 1942 before being relocated to Arkansas as part of the Japanese America Internment. I went there a lot growing up to see the horses but did not know the history of the grounds. I am still saddened every time I read about this part of our country’s past.
tea towel calendar
This item includes all of my favorite things; its a tea towel with simple lines in a wide brush stroke, red on white and made in San Francisco. Can be found on Etsy in shapescolors shop. I think it would a lovely wall hanging.
