Tangled Stitch

We are Americans.  We care about each other and American values.  We’ve had presidents who have gotten us through wars, through 9/11, through assassinations, through impeachments.  Through lean times and prosperous ones. Who brought the country together instead of dividing it.  Who didn’t promote fighting with their relatives at Thanksgiving and calling everything a hoax.  Even if they weren’t the best president ever they brought us together in times of crisis.  Today as I listened to our president blame Andrew Cuomo for not ordering ventilators two years ago and Anthony Fauci blame New Yorkers for traveling around the country and giving Americans the Coronavirus I was really thankful that Andrew Cuomo took charge and quarantined us.  That he somehow got the tests that make our state the epicenter of this horrible virus.  It’s everywhere folks as shown by all of the stories I have shared.  In some cases these states that are not testing the...

I have always said that my son is the reason I wake up every morning.  He is in love and happy so I’ve kind of kept my distance from him lately.  The realization of this virus and how deadly it could be put me in a panic yesterday.  The thought that I may possibly die(irrational maybe)without seeing his face in person made me walk in the rain and visit him uninvited.  Raising him was the greatest job I ever had.  Raising your children is an honor.  So when you are in close quarters trying to get your work done and trying to keep your children entertained remember it is a gift you have been given.  Some day they will move on to lives of their own and you could be very alone and have to live with yourself for a while.  I am ok I’ve been living with myself the last few months but I do kind of wish this had happened 15 years ago so I could be with the people I loved.  Be safe.  Please stay healthy and when all this is over hopefully we al...

Well it’s been a while.  And what a strange trip it’s been.  This lovely pillow is available on Etsy. https://etsy.me/2vscg6l .  Now for the strange trip so you can move on if you are only interested in my art. I had a short lived Grub Hub career.  Making money delivering food is both easy and very hard.  I had quite the adventure culminating in a weekend that saw me delivering food to a recycling plant with hard hats and trucks and backing out about 200 feet, driving the wrong way on a one way street in Albany and locking my keys in the car while in a desolate mobile home park in the freezing cold.  I kind of loved it anyway and can see why people do it and why I might still do it after getting commercial insurance policy.  You can’t make a claim on your insurance if you are a driver for hire in NY state.  Luckily it was dark and there was hardly anybody else on the one way street. I’ve been kind of putting my art and pillows on the back bu...

What is the sun, the moon and the stars? It is the beckoning of a greater force, Greater than all of us. Looking up into the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars beckon us, the great unknown, They unite us. We all look and see the same things for a day, a week, a month, eternity. They guide us when we are lost, they give us direction, they illuminate the sky They keep us company on a day at the beach or a dark night of the soul. This piece is available on my Etsy shop.  You can find it here. https://etsy.me/2OVsMSR

Sometimes in our lives we ask God or the universe what we need in our life.  We go inward and meditate and ask for answers.  Sometimes the answers are painful memories which he keep us stuck in a place of lack.  Sometimes the answer is opportune people who show up in your life to give you meaningful messages.  I have become very aware in the last few months on the limitations I have placed on myself due to my opinion of my self.  While meditating I uncovered horrible truths which I realize have affected my outer world but more importantly my inner world. I have spent years on a spiritual journey and have learned to accept people for who they are or who I thought they were.  I concentrated on the good and forgot the rest and somehow managed to have a bunch of people in my life who love me more than I love myself who I love dearly.    On the other hand I have squandered a hell of a lot of money, been unable to find love for myself in the process...

Tequila Sunset is a piece I started several months ago inspired by a picture I saw on Facebook.  Originally it was going to be just an ordinary landscape kind of piece probably a little more like a real sunset than my abstract rendering of one.  My goal was to finish it so I picked up my trusty needle let it take me where it wanted to go and finished it.  I’m very happy with how it turned out and love it in this frame. I’m not sure where it is going at the moment but if you are interested please shoot me an email.

This is something a little different from my usual work, the voice in my head suggested it.  Both the barn and getting out of my comfort zone.  I have been going through a fearful time worried about money and the fact that I turned 60 with no safety net.  I’ve been pretty much living out of fear.  So I started meditating and found this beautiful voice in my head that makes suggestions. Some of them work some teach me lessons.  Mostly it tells me to love myself and do what will make me happy. At my day job it taught me to focus on the part of my job that I love, which is my customers.  I truly love people, find the thing I like about them most and forget the rest.  I think it has worked you would have to ask everyone else if it works for them. As an artist it means sitting myself down and embroidering in silence.  I feel that has given me a modicum of peace and helped me to focus.  I seem to have always had a severe case of monkey bra...