grief

Hexagons, Grief, and Jazz from Quilting Studio Adventures

We went on a jazz cruise in January, obviously John’s. I would like points for not taking my sewing machine. However, I did take along a stack of big hexagons, some left from previous projects and some cut expressly for this project. I’m not a great hand piecer, but these hexagons, since they require y-seams, are really ideal for hand piecing. So every day I pieced away, watching the jazz shows on the closed circuit television. Of course I came out for meals! We were both happy for the week.

This jazz cruise quilt is a duplicate, of ...

added by Donna 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under grief , hexagons

It Was a Good Day from Allen Quilts

I was so tired when we got home from the ranch last night, but it was the good kind of tired. My husband, brother and I made the 2.5 hour trip to the monument company to pick up the marker for my parents’ gravesite, then the one hour drive from there to the ranch to… Continue reading It Was a Good Day

added by Wild Rose Quilter 9 months, 1 week ago. under beautiful morning , family , family burial ground , family farm , grief , hackberry spring ranch , losing a loved one , quilting , ranch , trees (Comments)

Little Miss Food from Nina Paley

Sometimes I miss food.

By food I mean Indian food, Thai food, Mexican food, salsa fresca, salads, pizza, pasta, and my homemade bread and soups: tomato, lentil-kale, vegetarian chili. Tortilla chips, potatoes with skins on, sesame seeds, nuts, herbs, and Numb Oil Tofu from Golden Harbour.

I miss eating with others. This genuinely lovely article by Brandon Showalter felt like a knife in my heart:

“Why have I been doing this, you ask? And how do I do it in light of such deep and profound differences among us? It’s actually not that complicated. As my past and present ...

added by Nina Paley 11 months, 1 week ago. under crohn's , food , grief , health (Comments)

Dave King Memorial Blogpost from Nina Paley

Dave was hella funny and brilliantly creative and kinda nuts, with a good heart that just stopped January 11, 2024. We both had comic strips in the Daily Illini in the late 1980’s; his, “Bob ‘n’ Dave,” was clever, hilarious, gonzo, and unpretentiously deep. Much later, as the Duke of Uke, he made “Spider Suite” which I used in my film Seder-Masochism. His was the absolutely perfect voice of Death, and if there is an afterlife I hope he’s simultaneously entertaining and scaring the pants off any souls he meets.

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added by Nina Paley 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under creativity , grief , sucktastic suckage , urbana (Comments)

Bat Mitzvah from Nina Paley

A poem about connecting with my Ashkenazi heritage.

Today I am a woman.
Today I am a Jew.
Today I have an ailment
my ancestors all knew.

For many generations,
my Fathers’ guts have hurt.
My Mother can’t eat chocolate:
a most unjust dessert.

I gather all my chocolate;
I give it all away.
No more can I digest it,
And I have Crohn’s today.

I feel myself much older
than I have ever known.
Today I have a Crohn’s disease;
Today I am a crone.

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added by Nina Paley 1 year ago. under creativity , grief , handbasket , health , jewish (Comments)

Crohn’s Haiku from Nina Paley

Diagnosis: Crohn’s.
The Autoimmune Empire
has colon-ized me.

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added by Nina Paley 1 year ago. under argh , bullshit , entropy , grief , handbasket , health (Comments)

my Nan from Charm About You

This blog post is wholeheartedly selfish, I am writing it because I need to. My blog has documented so many life events and I can't miss this one out. It's taken me many months, adding bits here and there so if it reads like that, well, it will. The whole time I am typing I am sobbing, this post may be triggering - if you are grieving right now, you have my full empathy and it might be best to skip this one. Then again maybe we all share grief. This may be cathartic to some of you, I ...

added by Lucy | Charm About You 2 years, 2 months ago. under grief , my nan

Fathers Day from Sew Preeti Quilts

This is my dad.

My dad

Yes, I take after him :-)

Daddy's Girl

He passed away in 1998 and I miss him everyday. The grief never really goes away. You try not to dwell upon it constantly. You eventually learn to think of happy memories when you think of them.

One of my happy memories of my dad is when he would return from an out-of-town work trip. In his shirt pocket, there would be a 5 Star candy bar . As soon as we heard him or saw him at the door, we girls would run up to him ...

added by Preeti 2 years, 6 months ago. under death , despair , disgust , empty pockets , fathers day , grief , mass shootings , old shirts , recycled , repurposed shirts , robb elementary school , school shootings , shirt pockets , upcycled , uvalde , uvalde shooting

Fickleness of Grief from Quilt in Piece

Grief is a fickle fiend. And totally unpredictable. We have all experienced the loss of a loved one at some point or another. Some a long time ago, and some very recent. There is a difference between mourning and grieving. Mourning is a time period after death, which is the expression of an experience, involving loss, causing grief, occurring as a result of someone’s death. Grief is the response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also ...

added by Vanda 2 years, 10 months ago. under 2022 , grief , reflection (Comments)

Showing up For Work from Where Art & Life Meet

I’m not feeling great. I should probably just end this post right here. But, no, I’ll soldier on. Not because this post is important, it’s not, but because it represents all the things on my to do list and so much that is just life. No one needs to hear my laundry list of “woes”, […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 3 years ago. under ariane zurcher designs , ariane zurcher hand stitching , art , artist , artists life , aspen institute , aspen writer's conference , creative process , death , grief , grieving , grieving my mother , hand stitching , life , michael crichton , mourning , mourning the death of my mother , my mother , paula zurcher , showing up , work , youtube (Comments)

Dreaming of My Mother from Where Art & Life Meet

Laughing with Mom – Photo by John Kelly “Have you dreamt about her?” This was a question a number of people asked after my mother died. But I wasn’t. I hadn’t. In fact I couldn’t remember dreaming about anything or anyone, until this past week. Maybe it was because it was the first Thanksgiving since she […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 3 years ago. under crafts , crochet , death , dreaming of my mother , dreams , dyeing , grief , grieving , knitting , laughing , laughing with mom , laughter , left handed , life , mourning , my mother , right handed (Comments)

Pain, Grief and Showing up Anyway from Where Art & Life Meet

So here’s the thing… I feel a whole lot better when I show up even when I feel awful, even when I feel things are rough and I’m tired, even when I don’t want to. I’ve also learned that showing up anyway is the single best remedy for not continuing to feel that way. Except […]

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This Too Is Grief from Where Art & Life Meet

Stitch, put on the design wall, evaluate, consider, take down, add a new element, stitch, put back up on the design wall, take a photograph, consider, have an idea, take down, thread up a new color, take a chance, take a risk, take a breath, stitch and then the tears arrive. Not a few drops […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 3 years, 2 months ago. under ariane zurcher designs , ariane zurcher hand stitching , ariane zurcher workshops , creating , creative process , death , design , designing , grief , grieving , grieving my mother , hand stitching , life , mourning , pain , stitching , virtual workshops (Comments)

Remembering My Mother and Stitching Anyway from Where Art & Life Meet

This blog is a reminder of my mother. She was my biggest supporter and commented over the years more than anyone else. It was through this blog that I often kept in touch with her and towards the end it was the one full proof way I knew I could reach her, especially when my […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 3 years, 2 months ago. under ariane zurcher designs , arianezurcherdesigns , art , creating , creating art , creative expression , creative process , death , designing , embroidery , grief , hand embroidery , hand stitching , life , missing mom , mourning , my mother , on the other hand , shit my mother sends me , stitching , youtube , youtube channel , youtube tutorials , youtuber (Comments)

This is Grief, I’m Told from Where Art & Life Meet

There are moments that feel impossible and others that fly by unnoticed. Mostly I’m exhausted almost constantly, as though a perpetual scrim has enveloped me, making everything feel heavier, cloudier, more difficult to sort through. It’s not terrible, just different. This is grief, I’m told. This morning is one of those heavier moments. Maybe it’s […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 3 years, 3 months ago. under africa , africa in the time of covid , ariane zurcher designs , ariane zurcher on the other hand , ariane zurcher youtube , botswana , design , dying , giraffes , gorillas , grief , hand stitching , hippos , life , mourning , my mother , perspective , south africa , travel , traveling , traveling during covid , youtube , zambia (Comments)

An Early and Deep Grief from Quilting Studio Adventures

In 1991 I was transferred from Hyde Park High School to Kennedy High School - a welcome change since Kennedy was a much shorter commute. But it was the first time I ever had white and Latinx students - and this led me to another MA, this one in Multicultural Eduction. But as is true with every group of students I have ever had, I connected deeply with several despite the change in demographics.

In order to teach Jane Eyre, which was part of the Brit Lit curriculum with juniors, I piloted a unit using Warrior Woman (Kingston), Caged Bird (Angelou), Learning ...

added by Donna 3 years, 8 months ago. under grief

Quarantine quilt from Meena Schaldenbrand

Memories

The object of inspiration of this weekly challenge is the tennis shoe.

It is embroidered with cancer ribbons on my late husband's lab coat pocket that shattered our big dreams of the rest of our lives together.

We used to go for hour long walks daily for almost 4 decades to enjoy the fresh air, discuss the day's events and share laughs.

I miss him so much as I now walk alone.

The two combined weekly challenges that inspired this quilt is Textile Artistry week 2, Memories, and

Project QUILTING Quarantine 2020

added by Meena 4 years, 8 months ago. under grief , grief quilt , memories , project quilting quarantine 2020 , textile artistry week 2

Progress/Innovation from Nina Paley

I just drew this for myself but it could be a Hundred Dollar Drawing.

added by Nina Paley 4 years, 8 months ago. under $100 drawings , grief , handbasket , hundred dollar drawings , philosophy (Comments)

Slowly, slowly from Elsie Quilts

I now understand those who quilt for therapy in a loss or pain. These are busy days and I'm having trouble with focus and that "Be still and know that I am God" thing that is so true but often difficult with a million thoughts and memories crowding into my head. I miss my sister yet cannot believe she is gone. I am sad for me and others in our circle of family and friends as she was such a unique and wonderful person, but happy for her as I know she is with Jesus. Put the memories into ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 4 years, 11 months ago. under family , grief , halo medallion , nose bleeds , therapy

Grief Postcard from Meena Schaldenbrand

The challenge was to use team colors. Living in Michigan, maize and blue, Go Blue came to mind immediately. In grief, the color blue has a whole different meaning for me now. The blue tragedy mask is for the loss of my best friend of 45 years. The yellow comedy mask is for his fantastic sense of humor that I miss the most and the wonderful, happy memories of our short time together.

added by Meena 4 years, 11 months ago. under #pq11.2 , #pqseason11 , #projectquilting , #projectquilting11.2 , fabric postcards , grief

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