A Better Day

Would you like to be a weaver? Unable to fall asleep at night because you are struggling with the myriad ways of threading the warp you have all but lost faith in? Rejoicing to find, by the dawn's early light, that you don't have to hack it all off, and chalk up the last week of work on it to a complete loss. That it is working, at least at the first 6 inches. This little warp that I've been calling Depression has made me wonder again, and again, what it is that gets a grip of my brain in this process?

Maybe it's a similar, but better, obsession than binge eating of potato chips, for instance. For now, I'm humming along weaving this little bit of repp: 5/2 perle cotton working in my little 22" Norwood Studio loom, 2 ends/heddle, 4 ends/dent, in a 12 (not 8, as I had planned at first) 12 dent reed. Crowded, but in a good way! Believing again that it will always work out!

Our village TV

The election has dominated my thoughts, and yesterday, before we heard the results, it was difficult to focus on any task, even weaving. Because we live in a remote valley, where it is difficult to get any reception, we usually go to visit friends on the ridge when we need to watch TV. So we went to the airplane hangar where our friends Phil and Kathy invited us to watch
the election results on Phil's $2 rummage sale TV. It looked a little fuzzy at first, until we twitched the antenna. Then we could read and watch the numbers, and see people rather distinctly. We clearly saw when the exact number of votes had been reached to declare the winner. A banner flashed across the bottom of the screen: OBAMA ELECTED.

I'm sure we'll all remember this night in the years to come. Oh beautiful, our United States of America.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Election Day

Fervently crossing my fingers, and wearing my I Voted Today button. Now there's nothing else to do but wait and try not to worry.