Happy Autumn

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Tuesday

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Confederados

Barbara Brackman's 2026 pieced BOM 

CONFEDERADOS

#9 Single Chain and Knot

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Magic Mushrooms

I'm calling this piece done.  I've been puttering along on it for several weeks, and I'm ready to move on to something new.

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SEPTEMBER

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AT THE ROAD'S TURNING

AT THE ROAD'S TURNING, A SIGN

Stranger, you have reached a fabulous land -

in winter, the abode of swans,

magnolia buds and black leaves

secretly feeding the earth

memory snaked into tree roots.

In spring, you will feel life changes

bubble up in your blood like early wine,

and your heart will be lighter than

the flight of gossamer pollen.

Stranger, in summer, you will drink deeply

of a curious local wine,

fortified with herbs cut with a silver knife

when the moon was new.

Who knows what freedoms 

will dazzle your path like fireflies?

And I promise you in the fall

you will give up the search and know peace

in the fragrance of applewood burning.

You will learn how to accept love

in all its masks, and the universe

will sing here more sweetly than any other place.

~ Dolores Stewart Riccio, The Nature of Things ~

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