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Monday, March 14, 2011

Sewing empathy

Like all of us, I've been watching the suffering of the Japanese people on the news. In one moment everything we depend on can change. At times like this we want to do something to help. I was working on a little series of goats and this must have happened, the upside down background,
while I was watching the news last night. I'll leave it.
         This little spring dawn cloth has been quietly growing day by day, just like the green buds on my cherry
tree and lilac bush. I hope for a magnificent cherry blossom season in Japan this year to give hope and inspiration for the people of  Japan.


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10 comments:

  1. PennyMarch 14, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    Your upside down background probably came unconsciously from your concern about the tragedy in Japan as their world was suddenly turned upside down. I don't think my heart is nearly big enough to begin to comprehend the terrible awfulness of this whole thing.

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  2. PattyMarch 15, 2011 at 5:51 AM

    Penny, it seems every day there is a new suffering for these people in N. Japan. My
    heart isn't big enough either.

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  3. MalindaMarch 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM

    Goats are such funny creatures that you could turn this upside down and it would look like goat antics. Silly goats.

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  4. PattyMarch 18, 2011 at 5:41 AM

    I'd like to have some angora goats...

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  5. Deb GMarch 19, 2011 at 6:28 AM

    I've been thinking about how when something like this happens, for those of us that make things, there is a need to try to help in a tangible way. Money doesn't really feel that way to me, and yet it usually is what helps the most. I think your goat is perfect just the way it is.

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  6. PattyMarch 19, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    Hey, I found this today in a Japanese woman's sewing blog I follow...

    (it didn't work so I'll post this tonight in my
    blog)

    ...a way to help. They need quilts, especially
    baby quilts. Not art type quilts but warm ones.
    I'm pulling out my scraps right now. To make someone warm and sending money is the best.

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  7. Mary Helen-Art Saves LivesMarch 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    I love the baby goat in an upside down world. Bless you for all you are doing now in a time of cold chaos. Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart

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  8. PattyMarch 25, 2011 at 6:31 AM

    Mary, that little goat has the smile of a Zen priest, I think. Have no idea where that smile came from.

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  9. liniecatMarch 30, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    Oh goats! Wonderful! I was in cat rescue for years but once rescued a juvenille nubian cross from being slaughtered......and fell in love with goats from then on!
    I couldnt keep him, hed been brought up with 6 children so was convinced he was a dog and was too big to sit on laps any more lol
    Love the upside down piece too.it So works as it is!

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  10. PattyApril 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    Goats...oh my how many animals can we feed? I once met a goat and a dog raised together and they
    had no thought the other being other than friends. I can remember how they raced to the water together. Love and acceptance make cool friendships.

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