yesterday evening
while waiting for the delicious dinner to be done
we all played a board game
even grandma
a children's version of trivial pursuit
playing in the regular manor
taking turns from youngest to oldest
bea first pam last
the game proceeded
i won
but the lovely thing that happened
was another rule or way of doing came about
all on it's own
instead of being the sole answerer
you could 'defer' to someone who knows the answer
and if that person was willing to offer the help
you could take their better more confident answer
sort of like the life line idea of
'who wants to be a millionaire'
this game could be called
'who wants to be a community'
lately i have been thinking
about how people create their own hell
i see it often,
surely am a part of my own hell's creation
and keep going back to a story that i have heard
in various traditions
christian
jewish
buddhist
about the starving people
at the table
with long necks and short arms
that will starve
amist the gorgeous feast
unless they learn to feed each other
in our game,
in which we changed the rules
organically
the phrase
' i defer'
came to be one of the options
and it was a really good game
Sunday, May 18, 2008
a different pursuit
Friday, May 09, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
thanks boys!
Thank you to the boys who participated in my Mixed Media workshop: D.G, Christian, Jordan, Jonathon, Daniel, Anil and John, and to the staff especially Randi who organized the day and invited me to be a part of it. Thanks too to my sister for being such a good driver!
The day was a great success and the boys where brave enough to give one of my current passions a go; sewing on paper!
We cut and pasted, used fortune cookies for inspiration and lost ourselves in creating from such disposable treasures as the tops of potato bag sacks (they have nice sewn bits!), as well as ancient letraset ( "I have never seen anything like it in my life")
zippers, old maps and unusual books of Greek and Short Hand.
Monday, May 05, 2008
altered book project
My friend Rhonda Nolan lives in the West end of the city, I live in the East end. Toronto is very big. Rhonda came up with the idea of doing an altered book by mail correspondance. This is my first page. I mailed it on the 28th of April. I am certain it has reached Rhonda by now so it is safe to post here and not spoil her surprize. Getting Rhonda's book with the altered pages was a lovely surprize because I didn't remember it was something we had agreed to do!
I am so looking forward to her response to my pages.
I really like this kind of communication.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
needle, thread, glue ,rain, loose threads and some babble
Yesterday I had the unique opportunity of conducting a workshop day for a Home Schooling Conferance.
It was my pleasure to share the rainy day with such wonderful creative children. A special thank you to Theresa and Marina.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Open Book
Wayzgoose is this weekend. Me and my books of love are ready to go! I am so looking forward to this event, now in it's 30th year. Last year was my first time seeing the show, this year I am dee-lighted to be a participant. My friend James of 2X4 to the forehead, will be there with his wonderful stuff as well as the very talented Shannon Gerrard.
Wayzgoose is an annual book arts fair in Grimsby Ontario.
The show is on Saturday April 26th 2008
from 9-5pm
More information can be found at
www.town.grimsby.on.ca
Please come by and say 'hello'.




