They will cut down our trees and kill our salmon. They will take and take until there is nothing left... no cycle, no eggs left behind: to become new sea birds, the younge will not be spared, for they will eat them first. Panoptic eyes to mold our bodies, they will watch us all until we enforce their rules without knowing.

All is spiraling inward and out, the orgin of consciousness, a young woman buried with colorful shell beads, the Hallucinagenic God King commands from his pillow of bones.

Where do you belong in this world? Ten toes deep in dark soil, moss growing between your arms, curving around your ears, flowers spilling from your lips. What are you, human, no different than clay, not above the earth, not below it, you're bleeding in it. Struggle to see deep time; yet move with it, particles shooting through our body, we have been here since stardust, & will remain molecules drifting in the depths of forever…

Hands that sitch become more attune with each peirce of skin and thread pulled... Here's some sewing tips from your oddly pixelated sister...

Sewing General

• Never sew in bed, never, and when you inevitably do please use your pin-cushion
• Use thick cotton thread doubled over itself on work wear
• If your thread keeps tangling as you work, run the thread through beeswax
• Its easier to mend a hole before it forms, if you notice your garment starting to fray fix it before it tears
• On thicker fabric use pliers to push the needle through,once all of the needle -but- the eye is through switch to the other side and pull the sharp side out
• Use a leather thimble, rabbit & deer hide is too soft, moose or bear is best
• If you see moths around your fabric pile WATCH OUT they will eat all of your nice wool
• Moth eggs need thirty days in the freezer to die -do not make the same mistakes i have...

Embroidery Specific

• Embroidery floss runs out very quickly, buy more then you think you need
• Print out designs on paper to follow
• Sashiko is so much harder then you think it is
• Once done wet your paper, let dry, and then pull out, use the eye of the needle to pull paper out between stitches

Machine Specific

• You need to oil your sewing machine, and do deep cleans semi regularly especially if you sew thick fabric
• If your sewing machine feels hot, take a break, the plastic gears they use in newer ones can work if you push them to hard
• You dont need an expenive sewing machine
• use ballpoint needles for knitted fabric
• Please change out dull needles, pretty please for your own sake
• an iron is essential for quilting
• cheap fabric at thrift stores, use bed sheets, old shirts, and table clothes... skys the limit

Beadwork Specific

• use stiff felt to bead on, dont buy the expensive stuff, it was a dollar fifty at joannes before they closed
make sure the beads you buy match the sizes your needles say A beading needle size 11 works for almost everything

Favorite books

• Underland by Robert Macfarlane
• The Orgin of Conciseness in the Break Down of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
• Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
• The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
• Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives compiled by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
• Ghostways by Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards, and Stanley Donwood
• Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
• The Silmarillion History of the Elves by Tolkien

In no particular order, however my all time of all time favorite book Underland is at the top. I love his pro's style of writing as well as deep love and wariness of humanity in those pages. Haa Shuká is as well an incredable record of original teachings, I loved reading through all the history and oral teachings, and seeing the diffrences between the written story and the ones I listen to when I was young.

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THe mountains are beckoning you

Spiraling

These woods are dark and forebodding