COVID rising, elections less than two weeks out, wild fires still burning, mass evictions looming and kids struggling to learn on screens…I feel like I need an armor of fortitude for the days ahead.
Women’s PPE: Domestic Chainmail
Fall has arrived in Northern Indiana, and with it darker days and chillier temperatures. I cut the last of the zinnias to enjoy indoors, and harvested a few stray tomatoes that may or may not ripen. I have some artwork out in the world. PERSIST and Reimagine continues online for another month with two of my Women’s PPE Series on view. What She Carried: Hussifs will appear in Old Myths, New Stories, a WCA exhibit opening November 7 in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and I am delighted that Wisdom Cloak: Mender of Rifts has been selected for Quilt National 2021.
I pulled these two breastplates off the form this week. Women’s PPE: Wound Care 1 and 2. These will be the last before the elections. Now I am starting a series of anxiety shields. Who knew what a rich vein of images a pandemic could generate?
I have limited my news intake significantly, so I have been reading a lot of audio books and a few in paper form too. The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John’s Mandel; The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett; The Last Great Road Bum, by Hector Tobar; The Searcher, by Tana French; and The Boy in the Field, by Margot Livesey. Our library, the St. Joseph County Library, has been a lifesaver during the pandemic.
Be well.