My spirit isn't exactly troubled these days, but it is brimful of ideas, hopes, questions, plans, and projects.
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Category: quotations
Texts & Textiles: George MacDonald
Weaving, sewing, care for the poor -- all springing from the love of Christ.
Texts and Textiles: Shakespeare
For the last few months, I've stepped away from my keyboard and let sleep knit the raveled sleeve of so many cares.
Texts & Textiles: John Updike
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, Each soft spring recurrent; It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the… Continue reading Texts & Textiles: John Updike
Texts & Textiles: A Celtic Blessing for the Lambs
I've posted before about the Carmina Gadelica, a wonderful collection of folk prayers and blessings from Scotland. Today, as spring visits Texas, it seemed right to offer one of the Carmina's prayers for flocks, especially the sheep, whose wool is so beautiful and useful. The sheep with their lambs, like so many animals and plants,… Continue reading Texts & Textiles: A Celtic Blessing for the Lambs
Texts and Textiles: William Wordsworth
Happy Valentine's Day from WholeCloth! May your love be as trusty, fine, and kindly as the thread from faithful hands.
Texts & Textiles: Thomas Love Peacock
They also weave, with gentle art, Those stronger nets that bind the heart.
Texts & Textiles: Henry David Thoreau
Even a little bit of sewing will make you more mindful of your clothing: its source, its fit, the value of the labor that produced it. I think that learning to sew at least one garment can be a life-changing way to change your relationship to the purpose of clothing.
Texts & Textiles: JRR Tolkien
Before this year becomes too cluttered with daily tasks and joys and sorrows, it's important to remember the Story that gives these days their meaning
Texts & Textiles: The Parable of the Old & New Garments
The first parable recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke is that of the new patch on the old garment. I was surprised to see that it was first, but it makes sense: Jesus takes a situation perfectly familiar to his audience--the need to mend a worn garment--and uses it to reveal something mysterious about the kingdom of heaven.
