"In another Lifetime, you and I...."

"In another lifetime, you and I...."

Did you really say that?
I am a vessel.
Lifetimes flow through me.

Ladies and Amateurs

This is the box which houses the carving tools I sometimes use. They were my great-grandmother's, then my mom's, and now mine. I giggle every time I open it. That is: I both giggle and sigh to think of the barriers and assumptions women confronted when they just wanted to make things, or how impossible it was to transcend the rank of amateur if you happened to be a lady. I also think it's very wonderful that the ladies in my family went ahead and used these tools and others to keep making things anyway.