Shelter In the Storm: Sane Practices for Insane Times with Margie Weaver

Grateful to these Victoria women for keeping ancient handwork skills alive in the world...

Flax to Linen: growing flaxseed and transforming into linen cloth in Victoria Learn how to grow flax and transform it into linen cloth with this gentle video about the Victoria Flax to Linen Group. A reskilling project that has been g...

Worth reading and heeding...
“One-hundred per cent of the population wears clothes, so we have a responsibility as consumers, but brands and governments have an obligation to make it as sustainable as possible,” she says. “We need societal intervention from the brands that have already made such a fortune on us – it’s give-back time.”

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last forever Orsola de Castro is a fashion designer who became a re-use revolutionary. Now she has written a book to help people care for their clothes – and the planet

A few of you have expressed interest in a pair of my knitted/felted clogs. If I can secure orders for at least 3 pairs (to get free shipping on the yarn), I will gladly put my hands to knitting blessings into clogs for you to felt yourself (felting instructions included).

To order: DM your US shoe size for adults, or length of foot in inches for children, and your preferred yarn color from the link below (be sure the color is in stock--I noticed 4 that are currently out), and your mailing address.

Use [email protected] via PayPal Friends and Family to send $70 adult/$50 children per pair. I'll collect shipping after I know what it is.

Questions? https://patternsbykraemer.com/collections/yarn/products/mauch-chunky?variant=6932958969884

"Through ‘handcraft’ courses, students learn by doing, making, drafting and constructing – the kind of manual work that has little need of specialised or costly equipment. Like the re-learning of a lost tongue, this is a form of reclamation clearly tied to the communal wellbeing of society, to stitching empathy and resilience to the shared knowledge and lineaments of a heritage."

Handcraft lessons belong in a radical school curriculum | Psyche Ideas Handcraft lessons in school can stitch empathy, sustainability and resilience to the shared knowledge of communal heritage

Praise for the ones keeping handwork traditions alive...

WOODLANDERS EP.14: SAMI WOODCRAFT WOODLANDERS EP.14: SAMI WOODCRAFT Tucked in the hills of Storsteinnes, Norway above the arctic cirlce Håvard Larsen og hans kunst continues the ancient craft…

Stunning, impermanent handwork by my friend Day Schildkret. "What beauty are you creating with this precious life?"

Morning Altars *Stop-Motion* Animated Short "What beauty are YOU making with this precious life?" Pinecones, flowers, stones, and berries come ALIVE in this wildly creative *stop motion animated* short...

If you're longing for a sane voice in these insane times, any of the interviews with Stephen Jenkinson are worthwhile.

This is the most recent: https://orphanwisdom.com/listen-stranger-days/

And this one from November 2016 is apropos of these days: https://m.soundcloud.com/orphan-wisdom/stephen-jenkinson-interview-with-chris-martenson-peak-prosperity =0:00

Interviews | Orphan Wisdom Audio and podcast interviews with Stephen Jenkinson. Laurie Brown’s Pondercast ‘Death’ Interview With Stephen Jenkinson      

A sweet 35-minute sanity session for these troubled times, led by beloved friend and Orphan Wisdom classmate, Anne Pitman, employing Day Schildkret's beautiful Morning Altar practice...

Embodied Grief: Listening in Troubled Times

It's garden season on the Olympic Peninsula and my hands are busy working on rainy days to earn enough for a truckload of mulch and compost and to pay my tree guy for tending to a few tasks.

How can you help?
Order homegrown sweetgrass braid ($25) or tassel ($20) and copper earrings, or hand-hammered copper penny earrings ($40)--both have handmade copper earwires, or sweetgrass bracelets ($20).
Includes US shipping. Add $5 for Canada.

Handcrafted gifts are best!

Thank you... ❤️

Elders in our midst...
"You know, she tells me, when people have too much, they will abuse what they own. “It is the striving and saving for something that is important. Then you get your goal and you have it. If your choices are too great, you can’t make up your mind what you are going to do. You get overwhelmed by the choices.

“I’ve seen too much money, and it creates a disrespect for other people. It is a divider. It also creates a disdain for manual work. You think if you are doing manual work you are a savage somehow, but actually you are not. Manual work is just as important as intellectual work, because our humanity and community require a biodiversity of work.

“And that’s why the celebrity culture is such a damning culture for any society. It is all about the money and the Church of the Holy Dollar.”

These dramatic shifts in thinking, created by cheap energy and its illusion of abundance, have led us to the climate crisis, says Beresford-Kroeger, “and that has led to the destruction of everything around us and the grab of greed.”

Here's Part One of the interview: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/24/Talking-With-Botanist-Talks-To-Trees/?utm_source=weekly&fbclid=IwAR3P6AChh4-G_Ounlogw5NuTuewI29W4W7eRoaaMoadO0MhthEI6DIuwYvA

Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis | The Tyee Our conversation with the renowned botanist turns to fire, money and manual work.