I've been meaning to catch up on blogging, but life has its way! Between a bumper crop of raspberries and Marionberries to pick, regular harvesting of our produce, family gatherings, and a lovely hike in the Olympics with friends, I've been silent! I hope to remedy this beginning now, with some entries that are retrospective of the past year or … [Read more...]
Ichi-go ichi-e: IslandWood 2-7-2016
February 7th, 2016. The sun rises on a sleepy Sunday. Wow, am I happy to see this sunrise! I wonder who are the special people I will meet today? They don't mind missing the Super Bowl to learn cedar weaving! Sometimes an idiom so perfectly describes an experience that it must be remembered. "Ichi-go ichi-e" is an expression in the Japanese … [Read more...]
Cedar Workshop June 18+19, 2016
Cedar From Tree To Pouch (Please copy and paste the link below for more info) https://bainbridgebarn.wildapricot.org/event-2138845 I'm looking forward to teaching "Long Life Maker" or Cedar From Tree To Pouch, this coming June 18 and 19, at the "Rolling Barn" in Rolling Bay, Washington. The class is limited to 8 students to allow the time … [Read more...]
Gifts from the Landscape – 2016
I am grateful to be able to teach a cedar bark weaving workshop at IslandWood this upcoming February. For those of you eager to learn about this cultural art form, but you might not have signed up in time, be sure to get on the wait list in case anyone cancels. https://islandwood.org/event/gifts-landscape-cedar-satchel NEXT CLASS … [Read more...]
Passing Skills to Others
Traditional knowledge of all aspects of the world in which we live is the foundation for much of the art, science, and technology in our modern world. Pollen records indicate that Traditional First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest have been utilizing all parts of the Western Red Cedar tree for at least 5,000 … [Read more...]
