Saturday

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And in conclusion: 'we're just going to have to pay more ... '

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 Insensitive: deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling 

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Thursday

Can you say BOLL WEEVIL?

Domestic cotton production at

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 Injurious: harmful; hurtful; detrimental; ruinous; destructive; pernicious; damaging; deleterious

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 This morning Barbara Brackman continued her timely series about tariffs with a look at the confusing De Minimis import tax exemption.  We probably won't be ordering any artwork or gifts or supplies from overseas in the foreseeable future, sigh. 

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And I've finished up my set of tariff blocks -- a crisp bright quilt top that's kept me distracted from appalling current events as they've unfolded all week. It will eventually become a donation quilt.

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Inflammatory: tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.; provocative; incendiary

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 The next post in the 

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series at Barbara Brackman's Material Culture blog has been published.

These articles are resonating with me because they are narrowing the overwhelming flood of bad news down to a subject area that is meaningful to me personally -- working with fabric is a daily part of my life and has been for many decades.  The cost of textiles has an impact on me.  Furthermore, Barbara Brackman's sharp political perspective is completely aligned with my own.

Sprinkled throughout the articles, Barbara is offering a varied selection of aptly-named quilt blocks to underscore her historical information.  I've started to piece up some of them because quilt making and embroidery are my creative language, and I can 'comment' on current events via this dialect at this time.  

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Indiscreet:  lacking good judgment, or circumspection; imprudent

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This!

 

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Material Culture

I'm facing some challenges in real life these days, in addition to the political debacle we are all witnessing.  It's increasingly difficult for me to act as though things are normal, to pretend the world isn't happening. But strangely, when I read the above article about tariffs and domestic manufacturing today, things kind of settled in my brain. The article gave me a different context and 'language' for processing depressing information. 

One of my basic identities is as a textile person -- quilter, embroiderer, yarn worker, etc. -- so I guess this perspective on the economy and current events through the eyes of quilt block names really resonated with me!  I wonder if I'll be motivated enough to piece up a tariff sampler quilt?  Thank you, Barbara, for your wonderful research and your way with words. 

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Indecent: offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar; obscene; outrageous; inappropriate; licentious; lewd; filthy

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